Sunday, June 27, 2010
ARP: Solus
YouTube via ajantred | February 14, 2009 | 7:33
"Me playing a few patches made with my ARP Solus synthesizer (forgive me for my crap keyboard playing, lol). The ARP Solus was manufactured during the very late 70's and throughout the 80's before ARP became bankrupt. It is basically the ARP Odyssey's little brother because had most of the same functions that the odyssey had except it lacked sample and hold and the PPC controls. It comes in its own built in case and has 2 VCOs capable of producing sawtooth and square waves, 1 VCF that has CV and ADSR controls, 1 ADSR with single, multi and auto controls, 1 LFO, ring modulation and pitch bend as well as other tuning controls. This particular Solus (not the one in the picture) is loaned by me from the Oldham Music Centre as no one had put it too good use for over 15 years and have let it gather dust (and damp unfortunately). It is still in playing condition, all the switches and sliders work great, the only problem i have with it is that a couple of key contacts act a little odd due to the damp, but this is nothing major. Overall, this is a very powerful and underestimated synth that produces big fat bass sounds as well as weird and wonderful sounds."
Yet more ARP SOLUS
YouTube via ajantred | November 27, 2009 | 8:18
"Heres me playing some more sounds on my ARP SOLUS synthesizer. Sorry I didnt add a title at the beginning, i spent more time lining my high quality audio recording with the video (i didnt want to use crappy camera audio). Any way, as WC Olo Garb (aka Jexus) puts it, this isnt about what a synthesizer can do, its what someone can do with a synthesizer (theres lots to do, this is only a snippet of all the sounds you can make)
Enjoy"
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those are great youtube pics. I picked up a fantastic condition Solus and it was a great choice. They're not really well documented, but they are very fat sounding, amazing basses, very cool filter and some of the effects are really great. The ring modulator gets some very unique sounds out of it that you'd be hard-pressed to get with other ring modulators. Plus, being able to calibrate the thing yourself with the holes on the top panel is really good (just make sure you know what they go to!). I'll have to make some vids sometime.
ReplyDeleteThe Solus was meant for the education market for students to learn synthesis. Since they came in their own case they are usually in great shape used. Probably the best made and most stable synth that ARP ever made. I've been trying to get one off of a friend for years. He bought one in a Thrift Store!
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