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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Solton Arranger Plus (1987) Italo Disco Synth w/ Extras

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"SOLTON ARRANGER PLUS, fabolous Italo Disco Arranger from 1987 with all the 4 eproms bank!

It’s the little brother of the Solton Programmer 24: fully analog with the same PCM of the Programmer 24. We have also a rare copy of instruction manual and schematic diagram in PDF!

The Solton Arranger Plus is very similar to the Solton Programmer 24. Analog sound generation and digital PCM samples for drums! It was produced in Italy by SOLTON Ketron in 1987.

It has single outputs for bass and drums. You could also play all sounds via MIDI, MIDI-sync to other drum machines possible as well."

Monday, February 21, 2022

Solton Arranger Plus (ITALO DISCO)

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Saturday, October 02, 2021

Solton Arranger Plus

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You can find demos in previous posts here.

"The Solton Arranger Plus was produced in Italy by Ketron in 1987. It has single outputs for bass and drums. Small brother of the cult SOLTON PROGRAMMER 24 / 24S arranger. They share the same audio engine but this one lacks the more advanced editing possibilities. To those who are into Italo Disco music they know these machine rule ! Consisting of a rhythm unit (digital 8bit PCM samples very like the LinnDrum, Oberheim DMX, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks etc) and a analog synth engine made of: 1 bass sound, 2 "chords" tracks, 1 "solo" track and 1 organ track."

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Solton Arranger Plus

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"SOLTON ARRANGER PLUS, fabolous Italo Disco Arranger from 1987 with all the 4 eproms bank!

It’s the little brother of the Solton Programmer 24: fully analog with the same PCM of the Programmer 24.

The Solton Arranger Plus is very similar to the Solton Programmer 24. Analog sound generation and digital PCM samples for drums! It was produced in Italy by SOLTON Ketron in 1987.

It has single outputs for bass and drums. You could also play all sounds via MIDI, MIDI-sync to other drum machines possible as well."

Monday, September 07, 2020

1987 Solton Arranger Plus - Italo Disco Machine

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You can find demos of the Solton Arranger Plus here.

"Brother of the cult Programmer 24. They share the same audio engine and style.

It has a rhythm unit (digital 8bit PCM samples very like the LinnDrum, Oberheim DMX, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks) and an analog synth engine made of: 1 bass sound, 2 "chords" tracks, 1 "solo" track and 1 “organ” track.

It has single outputs for bass and drums. You could also play all sounds via MIDI and MIDI-sync to other drum machines.

This arranger is the perfect machine if you are into Italo Disco/Pop music, it has that specific 80’s sound you won’t find anywhere. It is also pretty rare to find, so don’t sleep on this."

Monday, March 09, 2020

SOLTON ARRANGER PLUS (1987)


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Monday, January 06, 2020

Solton Ketron Arranger Plus - Amazing Italo Disco Machine | 1987 |


Published on Jan 6, 2020 RemasterMix

"Arranger Plus is like the younger brother of Programmer 24."

Solton Ketron Arranger Plus

Sunday, March 24, 2019

SOLTON ARRANGER PLUS PROGRAMMER 24

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Published on Mar 24, 2019 Vco Vca

"Very quick demo of the Solton ARRANGER PLUS.
Forgive the poor audio quality and performance of this video. It is solely intended to demonstrate the unit is running fine and to get you an idea of what you can achieve with this unit."


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"Here is a vintage 80s arranger. Small brother of the cult SOLTON PROGRAMMER 24 / 24S arranger. They share the same audio engine but this one lacks themore advanced editing possibilities. To those who are into Italo Disco music they know these machine rule !

Consisting of a rhythm unit (digital 8bit PCM samples very like the LinnDrum, Oberheim DMX, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks etc) and a analog synth engine made of: 1 bass sound, 2 "chords" tracks, 1 "solo" track and 1 organ track.

I just recently cleaned and serviced it. It works perfectly. I replaced the dead battery with a new one, and used a battery holder instead of the original solder-on type.

Condition est quite good. Front plate paint does show some scuffs and scratches and fainted part but as a whole it does look very nice. See pictures and judge for yourself.

The keyboard comes with its rare original manual (italian, english, french and german).

I made a video of this very same unit, to prove its working condition and get you some idea about the possibilities of the keyboard."

Sunday, November 25, 2018

SOLTON ARRANGER PLUS Analog Groovebox 1987 | HD DEMO


Published on Nov 25, 2018 AnalogAudio1

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The Solton Arranger Plus is similar to the Solton Programmer 24. It is a drum machine with digital PCM drum samples and integrated arranger, which uses analog sound generation. It was produced in Italy by Ketron in 1987. It has single outputs for bass and drums. You could also play all sounds via MIDI, MIDI-sync to other drum machines possible as well. In the intro I used a delay effect from the Korg SDD-3000. The last sequence used a reverb on the drum output. A nice machine for Italo-pop!"

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Solton MS40 Midi Synthesizer Module


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Note the Video Interface and it's actually Solton by KETRON lab

You can find some prior KETRON posts here. I also updated all Soton and Ketron posts to have both labels.

Details: "This is a fantastic sounding professional general midi synthesizer, that is an arranger module. It can be played by connecting it to a general midi controller such as a keyboard or midi guitar, or by your feet, using the midi bass pedals and programmable foot switches, or a combination of all of these methods. It is the perfect set up for a guitarist, pianist, accordionist or vocalist, professional or amatuer, for a one man orchestra. It plays styles, which are musical arrangements, which repeat or loop. It has 99 built in styles. Each style has 4 variations, 2 intro’s , 2 endings, and 3 fills and can be edited and saved to disk. It has Ram to accept up to 13 additional user styles. It has 256 voices, in 2 banks of voices plus another bank for user voices. It also plays midi files. The complete features are available on jpg files. [link]"

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Solton Polyvox


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"This is an odd stereo analog synth from Italy, looks like early to mid 80's. On the back tag it says Ketron Anacona Italy. Polyvox by Ketron Lab., and serial # 12xx/85. It is polyphonic, and all keys can play at once.

It has two sections, a large controller with voice banks, a footpedal with two switches, hookup wires,and a keyboard that has it's own voice banks. The keyboard has a 120 bass for the left hand. Before you roll your eyes (like I did ten years ago when I took this in trade!), the 120 bass controls a complex string, choir , organ, and bass guitar with a cool sequencer ! The strings/choir/organ sound is very lush and reminded me a lot of my K*rg Polysix when you had the effects switched to ensemble. The amazing thing about the voices is that there is a lot of flexibility and adjustments.

When I first started playing with this last year ( I had hoped to list it here before thanksgiving), I got lost in the mesmerizing grooves you could quickly make with the left hand (and I can't play accordian!) . Now it is 6 months later and I feel that I have explored this enough to describe it! I wrote 2 songs with it just this week! The phrase I keep thinking of is "This is not a cookie cutter instrument". Although similar in many ways to the basic concepts of the cheap Yam*ha's and Cas*o's (on board rhythym, drums, basic song arrangement, ala one man band), this has different arrangements, more dark new wave, kind of reminding me of the english new wave of '79-'82 . No polka madness here! And none of the aforementioned cheapies can lay down lush strings like this.

As for the right hand, you get the basic analog imitations of instruments, plus 3 mo*g-like synth sounds. The only adjustments are brilliance and modulation, and you do get a decent 'mo*g sound. Analog does make a difference, as I did not feel that I had to alter any of the instruments, like I usually do when recording the cheapie digital synths.

There's more. There is a stereo section that has the instrument moving in(or is it out?) when a key is hit. It does not continue to move if you hold the key down.. There are many adjustments for the strings, choir, organ brass, piano, percussion. Plus there are many ways to make up the sequencer for the arranger. As far as I can tell from playing it the last 6 months, you can not alter the arrangement/sequencer, but you can adjust what is in the mix.

The drums are decent sounding, and you can switch off the individual instruments. There is a tone slide that was pretty effective.

All works good, sliders work clean, leds light up, things go on and off as they should (at least as I think I should, I had no luck finding a manual online) except for two things.For some reason each time you hit one of the sequencer programs (pre-set) the drum tempo goes to the top speed 90, and you have to adjust it down to a more normal speed (40) and I could not figure out the bass program with 2 stops and a sustain (like an organ pedal). The bass guitar and double bass work fine, so I am not sure why I can't bring that section up.

This is not for everyone looking fo an analog synth, and I understand the desire to create your own voice (I'll be listing my mini-mo*g in a couple of days). But as a former synth freak, that had over 50 analog synths (and the same number of digtal ones!), I have found that the voice you spend a lot of time creating is similar enough to presets, that you could have saved a lot of time using a preset and simply modify it with outboard gear!

Anyway the point I want to make here is that this is not for someone that will be building a patch from a sawtooth oscillator , the strength of this unit is in it's songwriting/one-man band arranging. If you like your music on the odd and dark side (Resid*nts?), you will love this unit. If you think Abba and the Eagles are where it's at, do not bid! If I wasn't retired from the biz, I would keep this over the Mo*g, even though this is worth less. I have yet to find another one through go*gle searches. If you do end up getting this, and writing a hit song with it, only you and I would know how you did it!"
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