This is why I've resisted picking up a vintage one (especially at the prices they go for now + huge) - a little cheap Behringer box is exactly what a string machine is worth for my uses. The other Behringer stringer is very good but a bit too '80s.
@@mvsr990 I got couple years ago (before string synths hype started happening) a very nice Logan String Melody II and since then im using it all the time (for all possible genres). Its more similar to original Eminent since it has per key envolopes (not global like on Solina string ensemble). Whenever I start it, I instanly get into mood, such lovely charming sound.
@@josephwright5921 Streichfett is kinda nice (but really sounds more like VST plugin in box), I was tempted by it while ago, but then real deal (as mentioned above) happened and there was no going back at that point. :-)
As an owner of an original, this is actually quite appealing and sounds like they've really nailed the sound. The addition of MIDI and the phaser are welcome and the compact size a boon as the Eminent Solina String Ensemble weighs an absolute tonne and isn't the sturdiest traveler. It's crazt to think that a top-octave divider string machine is being mass produced in 2023, but nothing else quite captures that effect.
The original Solina String Ensemble had a single high-frequency master oscillator. This went through a divide-down circuit to generate the top 12 semitones, which then went through more divide down circuits to generate a tone for each individual key. Each of those was transformed into a sawtooth wave so you literally have full polyphony - every key can play at once, there is literally one hardware voice per key. One of the best parts about this design is that as long as the master oscillator is in tune, the entire instrument is always in tune - every key/voice. The various "instruments" were done with fixed filters that were switched in and out. I don't know if the Behringer version works the same way, but I would be surprised if it didn't.
Saw is "stair-saw" - multiple octaves mixed in in descending proportions. This is the reason top-most notes sound so... punchy. Square-like punchy. I never used Solina, but I've used Elektronika EM04 which is VERY CLOSE. A clone probably. I instantly recognized THAT ensemble sound. Very unique, though cannot be layer too much, as each new track with this effect creates dirt and more modulation, whereas chord with this effect gets glued together. Though it has sliders for each voice and some sort of Moog filter on brass. It weights about 25 kg. I sampled it once, then it went into storage. Can't think of any bad thing about the synth in review. Its a string machine with midi, what else would you want from life?
@@erlannderrantem6972 The master oscillator is a high frequency (well above the highest note) and a chip was used that divides it down using counters to get the 12 semitones. I don’t know if these chips are still made or maybe Behringer cloned it, or recreated it using a DSP, microcontroller, or maybe a FPGA but once you have that top octave, the lower octaves are simply divide-by-2 circuits cascaded on each note of the top octave.
@@josephwright5921 none available in Europe 3 weeks after you posted your comment. Maybe Behringer’s concept of ‘very soon’ is comparing their distribution to tectonic plate shifts?
I knew the sound from this thing is classic, and videos like this prepared me for the real deal, but it still just about knocked my socks off when I got one and switched it on through an amp.
I ended up selling the Streichfett and getting a Solina, so I can kind of answer my own question here. In retrospect, the Streichfett is more flexible, with the way you can continuously blend the different sounds rather than just on/off buttons, and with the onboard reverb, you can get a variety of sounds bigger and broader than a basic string synth. However, if you have a nice reverb or delay you can get those bigger sounds anyway. The Solina is easier to dial in "that sound" that you're looking for from the 70s, and that's what I'm mainly interested in, so for me the Solina works better. The one thing I really miss from the Streichfett is stereo output from the modulation. Yes you can add stereo effects to widen up the sound, but there's nothing quite like having the different components of the modulation effect separated in stereo. I wonder if it's possible to mod the Solina for stereo modulation?
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew exact what the sound you were referring to. This is a nice sounding machine but I think I miss my Waldorf Streichfett, what I paid new for it and sold it for the same will be the same as the Solina. Just feel that you get more from a Streichfett even though it's VA. I sold mine due to having been a little heavy handed in my tracks with it, meaning that suddenly I was using it too much, but now I miss it too much. Can never win lol. Thx for the upload, still sounds great.
Thanks for the memories. I had a Solina and this sounds like it. The Solina was built like a tank and weighed about as much as one. You wouldn't want to gig with it (although, I occasionally did).
Good Lordy, it's alive!!! I've always had a soft-spot in my heart for vintage string machines, so this I most certainly will purchase as soon as it becomes available. Enjoyed your presentation very much. Thank you!!!
Starsky, I just just wanna say *THANK-YOU* for mentioning Parliament and Stevie Wonder among the users of the original ARP/Solina String Ensemble. You are the first and only I have seen do so. (Now if we can just get Ohio Players in there. 🤣 Check out their _HONEY_ album. ) Excellent review as always... 👋👋👋👋👋
That's brilliant. It sounds just like the 70s stringers. Built in phaser and in/outs is well thought through, too. Nice contrasting thing to have in your arsenal and whilst I love originals, they are comically large and heavy.
I'll buy it, for sure 😍. This sound is in my memory since the 70s. You should have mentioned Jean Michel Jarre in the introduction, because, with the phaser, it's his signature (even if he uses an Eminent which is the elder brother of the Solina).
I have to say, Behringer really makes great String Machines. There are a few "obscure" string machines that i would love to see on the market. Finger crossed for the Crumar Performer (it was used on the last Depeche Mode record).
@@jrodohio So what, I'd rather see great recreations of classic musical apparatuses than some stupid electronic sequencer passin' itself off as a keyboard based synth.
Thank you so much for your feedback and good news! Bright, joyful and sad timbre... Perhaps this is a turning point in the creation of modern music, when technology has eaten techno, and ambient is like noodles hanging from our ears. The space opera is back!
Nice one! If Behringer could also clone the Korg Trident, Lamdba ES-50 and Sigma KP-30 it would be amazing! String-Synthesizers are extremely underrated IMHO
I like it more than I thought I would! Simple, fun, incredible vintage sounds. That's another beringer on my Christmas list! Honestly the way it sounds I think I would use it quite alot.
@@jrodohio Thats been their way ever since they started. They litterally copied Mackie mixers and other stuff and sold it for half the price and didn't care about the lawsuits 😂At least with many of their synth products they got a bit smarter as many of those companies do not exist anymore, so most of their copyrights is gone (or ran out), unless some of them got sold before they went belly up. And about their Digital mixers they didn't design those either, they just baught up Midas. But some of their own products is actually pretty cool, they just have way to many ideas and projects that never gets finished or is only half finished when the come out and never gets fixed before they abondon them.
It's awesome they included I/O for the chorus effect. That effect would make anything sound amazing. I'm curious what it would sound like to plug a mic into it and "Solinafy" your voice.
Back in the 80s and 90s I would dream about having a Solina on top of my Rhodes along with an ARP Odyssey or ProSoloist... I loved all those jazz funk disco tunes from bands like T Connection, Lonnie Liston Smith, Azymuth et al and the music I was making was in that realm. Finally found an original Solina in 2000s just wonderful... very heavy and I was alway worried something would happen to it so sold it on... This sounds like a very good recreation but I have no idea how I would use this today in the music I do...
I remember having a conversation with a music shop employee in the early 90s about string machines- the dude was convinced they were "obsolete" as string machines don't have envelopes and filters for every key. I said to him that he just didn't get it- string machines have their own sound, their own vibe. The French Duo Air proved me right a few years later on Moon Safari.
@@lundsweden Exactly. You’re spot on. I had a Korg Delta in the 80s. it was so limited but also so brilliant in the range of what it could deliver. this solina is even better, IMHO.
Cool to see the Finnish disco dance moves of the lehendary, late Åke Blomqvist get some international recognition! But seriously, I had somehow missed Behringer has cloned Solina as well. Gotta check on it!
Sounds awesome! I hope to get one. I guess I have been mispronouncing it in my head for decades whenever I read gear credits on classic albums. I always thought it was a “So-Lean-ah.” Great job on the proper demo! Behringer should just hire you to do ALL THEIR DEMOS. Some of their product demos by third parties have been rushed and terrible.
I'm looking forward to getting one of these and messing about with a hologram microcosm or a Sherman filterbank. Loads of scope for rhythmic textures I think.
Excellent informative video and you make it sound wonderful. Ours arrived yesterday. We routed it through my Zoom Livetrack 20 mixer and added a bit of reverb. Sounds amazing. I will point out a couple of things . The first which I find absolutely delightful is that it doesn’t retrigger the sound when you play the keys like my original Solina used to. I found that quirk very off putting because if you wanted it to play smoothly you needed to always have some notes held down continuously while you play fresh notes. The Behringer plays smoothly without you having to worry about that. The Behringer VC340 Vocoder/strings keyboard however does retrigger just as the original did. The second thing is that although there is full polyphony, there is a 4 octave limit of playable keys. That is understandable when we consider that it is based on the original technology. It might be interesting if you could try 2 Behringer Solinas over layered and de tune one of them to hear the chorus effect. Some legendary performers such as “The Enid” did this and it produced an unusually rich chorus sound.
We’re so used to being able to get things to sound good, you forget that some things don’t require any effort. Plug it in and hey presto. This is what you get, no Fx, no EQ just niceness.
spot on it does have a clockwork orange vibe that sound.... i did write this synth off when i saw it but having watched this i reckon theres actually tonnes of practical stuff you could use it on unlike a lot of synths
Now THAT's the kind of hardware I understand. Push a button to add an instrument that works with the other one.. that's fast, that's intuitive, that gets ideas out there quick. I can actually see the upside on hardware in this case and will put it onto "the list". Oh. Tried to put it on "the list" - turns out it's not being sold yet? I put in "Behringer Solina Strings" in Thomann (after being a good boy and clicking on your affiliate link to open it) and typed it into google, but all I found were reviews.
Edge apart, I love your ,channel. Second time I listen to this video. Thank to show how you extinct the 'table top' illness about putting rear connectors despite we buy expanders because we have plenty of keyboards, and they get semi modular, so, never we have a table to let them every day. I have a deepmind 12D, no manner to put it near my other 19" in eurorack, as using corned connectors. Amazing making such an error as the instrument is fine. I will buy it. You tittle is accurate, but space for me is in music as Classic, this hability to render space with strings and of course our listening is culturally adapted to imagine the church space for an organ. In birds singing, you have also this wet sound Giving a dynamic to the space created. That's why so talented musicians used such an instrument, not to imitate Bach or Beethoven, but by having studied how sound culture works, how our ear listening to the space around. I fave on my Jupiter 50 sounds like that, but this is not the same , as listening on a video nothing can replace harmonics from real oscillators and analogic solutions. So, Behringer is able for the best as the vomiting things. Hope the pro 800 will be Son of this race🙏💚🧡👍
The mod in/out and phaser in/out are probably the most interesting things. You can get so much better sounds going into them with a real polyphonic Synth. Or use a great external ensemble/chorus (that may be hard to replicate the one in the Soina) that feeds into a small stone phaser (better than in the Solina) that feeds into a digital delay and you get something of a Jarre Oxygene/equinoxe sound. Jarre used the Eminent 310 by the way, which was the "grand-father" of the Solinas.
@@erlannderrantem6972 Didn't know that. But the original only had the chorus and not the phaser. Besides, i wonder how good the built-in phaser is compared to the original Electoharmoix one. I think this Video of a Solina+external Electroharmoix Small stone Phaser sounds much warmer and Lushger than the one heard here! ua-cam.com/video/VfWWs3XOmjs/v-deo.html I think the phaser didn't sound as impressive to me as the bucket brigade chorus.
@@StarskyCarr how did you come by yours, behringer promised ages ago they would be on sale by my birthday, they have 8 days left. I’m tempted to purchase a secondhand Waldorf streichfett, to tide me over till the solina hits the shops but if they will be on sale in the next month or so I will wait. Did it ship with a uk power adaptor, thomman keep sending me European ones with behringer gear. Anyway great demo well done….
@@kentaccordionist as far as I know they’re imminent. A man in the know gave me the nod. .. and yes this one has an EU plug. From Andertons they normally have U.K. plugs (I THINK).
The Behringer sounds very good! I have used the String-Ensemble on almost every album since 1989. It is still my favourite electronic instrument. ARP specialist Saint Eric made a 19 inch Solina Ensemble rack unit for me using my second Solina. I had my third unit midified and this one still works, although the violin of one key is a bit week. It needs some key presses to restore the sound. I decided to buy two Behringer clones in case my stereo Solina passes away.
@@StarskyCarr thank you. Yes, as a Dutchman I am proud of this Dutch instrument. The sound never bores and I even found a new application a few years ago. As a paraphonic instrument, without the chorus it can perfectly mimic a Thai bamboo mouth organ. All units sound different but I assure you judging from your once again great video, Behringer did a good job.
Vintage string synths.. they cannot do much. But what they do.. is magical.
Yep, minimal use as a lead instrument, but pure magic for putting atmosphere behind a mix
This is why I've resisted picking up a vintage one (especially at the prices they go for now + huge) - a little cheap Behringer box is exactly what a string machine is worth for my uses. The other Behringer stringer is very good but a bit too '80s.
@@mvsr990 I got couple years ago (before string synths hype started happening) a very nice Logan String Melody II and since then im using it all the time (for all possible genres). Its more similar to original Eminent since it has per key envolopes (not global like on Solina string ensemble). Whenever I start it, I instanly get into mood, such lovely charming sound.
This thing sounds so much sweeter and smoother than the Waldorf Streichfett, which seems to sound nasty in the upper ranges to me.
@@josephwright5921 Streichfett is kinda nice (but really sounds more like VST plugin in box), I was tempted by it while ago, but then real deal (as mentioned above) happened and there was no going back at that point. :-)
As an owner of an original, this is actually quite appealing and sounds like they've really nailed the sound. The addition of MIDI and the phaser are welcome and the compact size a boon as the Eminent Solina String Ensemble weighs an absolute tonne and isn't the sturdiest traveler.
It's crazt to think that a top-octave divider string machine is being mass produced in 2023, but nothing else quite captures that effect.
The original Solina String Ensemble had a single high-frequency master oscillator. This went through a divide-down circuit to generate the top 12 semitones, which then went through more divide down circuits to generate a tone for each individual key. Each of those was transformed into a sawtooth wave so you literally have full polyphony - every key can play at once, there is literally one hardware voice per key. One of the best parts about this design is that as long as the master oscillator is in tune, the entire instrument is always in tune - every key/voice. The various "instruments" were done with fixed filters that were switched in and out. I don't know if the Behringer version works the same way, but I would be surprised if it didn't.
I was almost right!! Nice info cheers.
It does!
How would that work? Afaik divide down gives you only octaves, so how can you derive the 12 different semitones from that?
Saw is "stair-saw" - multiple octaves mixed in in descending proportions. This is the reason top-most notes sound so... punchy. Square-like punchy. I never used Solina, but I've used Elektronika EM04 which is VERY CLOSE. A clone probably. I instantly recognized THAT ensemble sound. Very unique, though cannot be layer too much, as each new track with this effect creates dirt and more modulation, whereas chord with this effect gets glued together. Though it has sliders for each voice and some sort of Moog filter on brass. It weights about 25 kg. I sampled it once, then it went into storage. Can't think of any bad thing about the synth in review. Its a string machine with midi, what else would you want from life?
@@erlannderrantem6972 The master oscillator is a high frequency (well above the highest note) and a chip was used that divides it down using counters to get the 12 semitones. I don’t know if these chips are still made or maybe Behringer cloned it, or recreated it using a DSP, microcontroller, or maybe a FPGA but once you have that top octave, the lower octaves are simply divide-by-2 circuits cascaded on each note of the top octave.
As a kid growing up in the 70’s I can’t help but have a deep and abiding love of the sound of the Solina. Thanks Starsky.
Easy purchase for me, what a sound! They nailed this.
Where ? Been looking for a year !
@@librasky My rep says they should be here very soon. They left the factory in China a month or two ago.
@@josephwright5921 none available in Europe 3 weeks after you posted your comment. Maybe Behringer’s concept of ‘very soon’ is comparing their distribution to tectonic plate shifts?
@librasky Mine arrived on Friday. Ordered from Sweetwater in May, I think?
That is THE classic sound of the 70's... a musical instrument so ubiquitous, that it almost deserves its own category.
It has it: string machine.
String Machines were quite a thing, until polysynths with patch memory and samplers made them disappear
@@josephwright5921 they never disappeared, they just lurked...
2:45 sounds like Tangerine Dream
Were you playing “In Search of the Unknown Gods” at the beginning? I love that album from the 70’s!
I knew the sound from this thing is classic, and videos like this prepared me for the real deal, but it still just about knocked my socks off when I got one and switched it on through an amp.
I love the sound of this String machine. To my ear it sounds spot on like a original Solina. Perfect for those 70s strings and Jarre covers!
What i love about you Starsky is you bring a sense of childish fun to the whole thing. Your enthusiasm shines.
The one and only Behringer synth that interests me. I look forward to demoing one, thanks for posting!
This sounds fantastic. Can’t wait to make space disco with it
Gave you a sub in anticipation of the space disco
@@essentialdang Same here!
I produce Space Disco!
This droog will be playing this in the Moloko bar.Great review.Thanks.
Would be interesting to see a comparison against the Streichfett, which I use for this kind of stuff, sounds great but I'm open to switching
I ended up selling the Streichfett and getting a Solina, so I can kind of answer my own question here. In retrospect, the Streichfett is more flexible, with the way you can continuously blend the different sounds rather than just on/off buttons, and with the onboard reverb, you can get a variety of sounds bigger and broader than a basic string synth. However, if you have a nice reverb or delay you can get those bigger sounds anyway. The Solina is easier to dial in "that sound" that you're looking for from the 70s, and that's what I'm mainly interested in, so for me the Solina works better. The one thing I really miss from the Streichfett is stereo output from the modulation. Yes you can add stereo effects to widen up the sound, but there's nothing quite like having the different components of the modulation effect separated in stereo. I wonder if it's possible to mod the Solina for stereo modulation?
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew exact what the sound you were referring to.
This is a nice sounding machine but I think I miss my Waldorf Streichfett, what I paid new for it and sold it for the same will be the same as the Solina.
Just feel that you get more from a Streichfett even though it's VA.
I sold mine due to having been a little heavy handed in my tracks with it, meaning that suddenly I was using it too much, but now I miss it too much.
Can never win lol.
Thx for the upload, still sounds great.
Thanks for the memories. I had a Solina and this sounds like it. The Solina was built like a tank and weighed about as much as one. You wouldn't want to gig with it (although, I occasionally did).
Good Lordy, it's alive!!! I've always had a soft-spot in my heart for vintage string machines, so this I most certainly will purchase as soon as it becomes available. Enjoyed your presentation very much. Thank you!!!
Sounds great! I still have my Arp Omni 2 since l bought it new in the 70’s!
Wow! Could you demo it for us?
Starsky, I just just wanna say *THANK-YOU* for mentioning Parliament and Stevie Wonder among the users of the original ARP/Solina String Ensemble. You are the first and only I have seen do so. (Now if we can just get Ohio Players in there. 🤣 Check out their _HONEY_ album. ) Excellent review as always... 👋👋👋👋👋
That's brilliant. It sounds just like the 70s stringers. Built in phaser and in/outs is well thought through, too.
Nice contrasting thing to have in your arsenal and whilst I love originals, they are comically large and heavy.
I hope to see you do a demo with this. Peace
The Alex seal of approval! Good enough for me. I've ordered one :)
Just love the sound of a solina , cant wait to buy one
Really a great video of a great instrument. I'm hoping Behringer will do a Crumar Performer Reissue.
I hope so, mine doesn't work right and I'm tired of getting it repaired, but I don't want to sell it so it's gathering dust in a case.
On the cutting edge as usual Mr Starsky, thank you. Been waiting for this since they announced it, just need somewhere I can preorder it now.
I'll buy it, for sure 😍.
This sound is in my memory since the 70s.
You should have mentioned Jean Michel Jarre in the introduction, because, with the phaser, it's his signature (even if he uses an Eminent which is the elder brother of the Solina).
He was on my list but I forgot.
@@StarskyCarrUps…😢
I have to say, Behringer really makes great String Machines. There are a few "obscure" string machines that i would love to see on the market. Finger crossed for the Crumar Performer (it was used on the last Depeche Mode record).
They copy great string machines. They don't innovate.
@@jrodohio So what, I'd rather see great recreations of classic musical apparatuses than some stupid electronic sequencer passin' itself off as a keyboard based synth.
What a magical little box. Might have me listening to ELP today because of this
Thank you so much for your feedback and good news! Bright, joyful and sad timbre... Perhaps this is a turning point in the creation of modern music, when technology has eaten techno, and ambient is like noodles hanging from our ears. The space opera is back!
Gosh, I may buy a Behringer product for the first time ! Love it ! 🙂 This is the fifth time I am listening to this video.
Damn you... another great demo.. Loved this type of sound since playing on a Crumar Performer in the early 90s... one to add to the arsenal for sure
Nice one! If Behringer could also clone the Korg Trident, Lamdba ES-50 and Sigma KP-30 it would be amazing! String-Synthesizers are extremely underrated IMHO
Great Video as always.👍 Now I want one. They nailed the sound it seems. Solina is one of my alltime favorite synth. Simply a classic.
I like it more than I thought I would! Simple, fun, incredible vintage sounds. That's another beringer on my Christmas list! Honestly the way it sounds I think I would use it quite alot.
Same here.
Loved the 70s disco and prog rock covers of Sci-fi movie themes using this synth. (Meco and Neil Norman)
Was Meco's Star Wars one done with a Solina? I love that one.
Sounds great, congratulations on the design and build
WOW!! That sounds really good!! I think Behringer got it right!! Thank you for making the video demo!!
Behringer copied it right. Please get it straight.
Behringer resurrected it right. Get it straight. (These things haven’t been produced for decades.)
@@jrodohio Thats been their way ever since they started. They litterally copied Mackie mixers and other stuff and sold it for half the price and didn't care about the lawsuits 😂At least with many of their synth products they got a bit smarter as many of those companies do not exist anymore, so most of their copyrights is gone (or ran out), unless some of them got sold before they went belly up. And about their Digital mixers they didn't design those either, they just baught up Midas. But some of their own products is actually pretty cool, they just have way to many ideas and projects that never gets finished or is only half finished when the come out and never gets fixed before they abondon them.
Loving it! Man I soon as I heard it, "Dogs" popped into my head! Totally bang on! Thanks for the great content.
Expecting mine tomorrow... can't wait to try it.
Fantastic video Starsky Carr .
This is a fantastic demo...! That sound is just unbelievable....! I'm going to have to get one...!
Thank you...! You have another subscriber... 🙂 👍
Thanks.. nice to hear. :)
He certainly got one in the yarbles. Nice piece, I’ll be getting one when they eventually get released, great vid 🙂
It's awesome they included I/O for the chorus effect. That effect would make anything sound amazing. I'm curious what it would sound like to plug a mic into it and "Solinafy" your voice.
I think is not for the chorus, is just for the stone phase fx
@@fjfrancois It has both... mod in is for the chorus effect (called modulation on Solina).
Yes indeed, I just learn that can be used as a pedal effect, chorus or phaser or both 🤘
I love disintegration! Great album… cheers!
Great video as always. Would love to see a Behringer Solina vs Arturia Solina V some day! 🤞
When this comes out in a few years I will buy it for sure!
😎 OP never said where he got his from
@@AndyRubio1 From the future probably.
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@@bobfrog4836 😂
Thanks for the nice demo. Love these sounds. I already have it as Vst.
Behringer will sell so many of these. Well done Mr B. Brilliant decision.
Thank you, & yes long awaited but now its here, I placed my purchase order on the Solina, Pro800, & a FourLFO module last Thursday.
This is fantastic❤❤❤❤
This has been on my list for ages. It's getting ordered the moment its live on Andertons.
Love that sound. Thinking about the Sparks. Song No. 1 in heaven for example.
Great video. I have the original solina string synth. This is really good and sounds great. The waldorf striechfett also sounds good too.
Back in the 80s and 90s I would dream about having a Solina on top of my Rhodes along with an ARP Odyssey or ProSoloist... I loved all those jazz funk disco tunes from bands like T Connection, Lonnie Liston Smith, Azymuth et al and the music I was making was in that realm.
Finally found an original Solina in 2000s just wonderful... very heavy and I was alway worried something would happen to it so sold it on...
This sounds like a very good recreation but I have no idea how I would use this today in the music I do...
I remember having a conversation with a music shop employee in the early 90s about string machines- the dude was convinced they were "obsolete" as string machines don't have envelopes and filters for every key.
I said to him that he just didn't get it- string machines have their own sound, their own vibe. The French Duo Air proved me right a few years later on Moon Safari.
Gotta love Moon Safari.
@@lundsweden Exactly. You’re spot on. I had a Korg Delta in the 80s. it was so limited but also so brilliant in the range of what it could deliver. this solina is even better, IMHO.
I'm soooo getting one of these. Solina soft synth emulations get used in loads of my tunes, but this sounds bang on 😊
I think I could be happy with nothing but ARP sounds. Each of their synths sounds alive and distinctive.
It's Eminent (Dutch) actually. Arp didn't design this one
Awesome sounds, I looked for this strings for years, the Behringer Vocoder has also the strings but this one is spot on 🔥🔥🔥
Finally Getting to Iowa shipping out this weekend from SW. I do have a Waldorf Streichfett it will be fun to layer them. Thanks for this nice vid.
Kerrist! What a beauty! I’m sold!😍😍😍 Thank you Mr. Carr!
I think I need this one…great hip hop and classic dance music machine.
Cool to see the Finnish disco dance moves of the lehendary, late Åke Blomqvist get some international recognition!
But seriously, I had somehow missed Behringer has cloned Solina as well. Gotta check on it!
Classic sound. Thanks. 🙂
I'm glad a company cares about the older generation
Sounds awesome! I hope to get one. I guess I have been mispronouncing it in my head for decades whenever I read gear credits on classic albums. I always thought it was a “So-Lean-ah.” Great job on the proper demo! Behringer should just hire you to do ALL THEIR DEMOS. Some of their product demos by third parties have been rushed and terrible.
I had one in 82. I will have this as soon as it’s available
Three words come to mind: In Search Of. The first gen w/Leonard Nimoy narrating. Takes me back.
I'm looking forward to getting one of these and messing about with a hologram microcosm or a Sherman filterbank. Loads of scope for rhythmic textures I think.
ooh nice ideas there.
This and the microcosm is going to sound amazing
Great demo. Very nice backing track too...
The disco strings are what im impressed by!!!
Been waiting for this for ages, feel like my hands will on one soon
Not sure if I'd ever have a use for something like this, but it does sound cool!
Lovely demo, good man ❤
Nice one, thanks.
Excellent informative video and you make it sound wonderful. Ours arrived yesterday. We routed it through my Zoom Livetrack 20 mixer and added a bit of reverb. Sounds amazing. I will point out a couple of things . The first which I find absolutely delightful is that it doesn’t retrigger the sound when you play the keys like my original Solina used to. I found that quirk very off putting because if you wanted it to play smoothly you needed to always have some notes held down continuously while you play fresh notes. The Behringer plays smoothly without you having to worry about that. The Behringer VC340 Vocoder/strings keyboard however does retrigger just as the original did. The second thing is that although there is full polyphony, there is a 4 octave limit of playable keys. That is understandable when we consider that it is based on the original technology. It might be interesting if you could try 2 Behringer Solinas over layered and de tune one of them to hear the chorus effect. Some legendary performers such as “The Enid” did this and it produced an unusually rich chorus sound.
It's bringing back memories of my Yamaha SK20 which had a similar lush string sound. Wonderful. 😎
Love the sound. Instant Richard Wright for me.
Wow. That really sounds terrific.
We’re so used to being able to get things to sound good, you forget that some things don’t require any effort. Plug it in and hey presto. This is what you get, no Fx, no EQ just niceness.
According to Keyboardest Roger O'Donnell, the sound on Disintegration is a mix of Solina and a string sample from his Prophet 2000.
Interesting, thanks
I had the original back in the day, they I got the ARP Omni 2 sounded quite similar.
5:26 where this arrangement of chords come from, it's so dreamy, I love it
spot on it does have a clockwork orange vibe that sound.... i did write this synth off when i saw it but having watched this i reckon theres actually tonnes of practical stuff you could use it on unlike a lot of synths
you got me at this was used in the disintegration album🤘
Now THAT's the kind of hardware I understand. Push a button to add an instrument that works with the other one.. that's fast, that's intuitive, that gets ideas out there quick. I can actually see the upside on hardware in this case and will put it onto "the list". Oh. Tried to put it on "the list" - turns out it's not being sold yet? I put in "Behringer Solina Strings" in Thomann (after being a good boy and clicking on your affiliate link to open it) and typed it into google, but all I found were reviews.
Edge apart, I love your ,channel. Second time I listen to this video. Thank to show how you extinct the 'table top' illness about putting rear connectors despite we buy expanders because we have plenty of keyboards, and they get semi modular, so, never we have a table to let them every day. I have a deepmind 12D, no manner to put it near my other 19" in eurorack, as using corned connectors. Amazing making such an error as the instrument is fine. I will buy it.
You tittle is accurate, but space for me is in music as Classic, this hability to render space with strings and of course our listening is culturally adapted to imagine the church space for an organ. In birds singing, you have also this wet sound Giving a dynamic to the space created. That's why so talented musicians used such an instrument, not to imitate Bach or Beethoven, but by having studied how sound culture works, how our ear listening to the space around. I fave on my Jupiter 50 sounds like that, but this is not the same , as listening on a video nothing can replace harmonics from real oscillators and analogic solutions. So, Behringer is able for the best as the vomiting things. Hope the pro 800 will be Son of this race🙏💚🧡👍
Really looking forward to getting one of these. Perhaps even more than any of B's other announced kit.
just what I needed - thanks!
Thanks for the video, I'm definitelly getting one!
Cool video and love the editing!
My favorite movie. Ima have to snatch this up. HAHA. FOR MY DROOGIES!!!!
👍🧡💚You did it, I was standing about to enter Solina into Taiga. Just one second to listen, but we know, now.😎🤗🐶😺👍
This thing sounds spot on!!!!! I definitely want one.
I have ordered mine. It should arrive in July! 😃
German prog trio Triumvirat made excellent use of the Solina. These sounds remind me of their excellent music.
One of the greatest prog bands EVER! ❤️
Great video, as ever. 👍
When are they dropping it tho felt like been waiting forever.
The mod in/out and phaser in/out are probably the most interesting things.
You can get so much better sounds going into them with a real polyphonic Synth.
Or use a great external ensemble/chorus (that may be hard to replicate the one in the Soina) that feeds into a small stone phaser (better than in the Solina) that feeds into a digital delay and you get something of a Jarre Oxygene/equinoxe sound.
Jarre used the Eminent 310 by the way, which was the "grand-father" of the Solinas.
The phaser in the Solina is a small stone circuit
@@erlannderrantem6972 Didn't know that. But the original only had the chorus and not the phaser.
Besides, i wonder how good the built-in phaser is compared to the original Electoharmoix one. I think this Video of a Solina+external Electroharmoix Small stone Phaser sounds much warmer and Lushger than the one heard here!
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I think the phaser didn't sound as impressive to me as the bucket brigade chorus.
@@Magnus_Loov Behringer did a quite decent Small Stone clone pedal in the past, so I guess this is the same circuit.
Damn it all, you lucky git,I still can’t find it in the shops. I must have this machine. I’ve dreamed of owning a solina for over 40 years.
Soon…. The wait will be over
@@StarskyCarr how did you come by yours, behringer promised ages ago they would be on sale by my birthday, they have 8 days left. I’m tempted to purchase a secondhand Waldorf streichfett, to tide me over till the solina hits the shops but if they will be on sale in the next month or so I will wait. Did it ship with a uk power adaptor, thomman keep sending me European ones with behringer gear. Anyway great demo well done….
@@kentaccordionist as far as I know they’re imminent. A man in the know gave me the nod. .. and yes this one has an EU plug. From Andertons they normally have U.K. plugs (I THINK).
The Behringer sounds very good! I have used the String-Ensemble on almost every album since 1989. It is still my favourite electronic instrument. ARP specialist Saint Eric made a 19 inch Solina Ensemble rack unit for me using my second Solina. I had my third unit midified and this one still works, although the violin of one key is a bit week. It needs some key presses to restore the sound. I decided to buy two Behringer clones in case my stereo Solina passes away.
Sounds like if anyone knows the Solina it’s you!
@@StarskyCarr thank you. Yes, as a Dutchman I am proud of this Dutch instrument. The sound never bores and I even found a new application a few years ago. As a paraphonic instrument, without the chorus it can perfectly mimic a Thai bamboo mouth organ. All units sound different but I assure you judging from your once again great video, Behringer did a good job.
I think I may indulge in this beauty .
Cool. I'll get one and chain it to my Streichfet string synth. Cheers!
When is the release date?
Cannot wait to own one!!! ❤
I need this now. Ugh! Thanks! haha
Wonder how the strings dry compare with vc340 string section. I love strings but already have a vc340, and wondering if this is a worthy addition.