SOLAR 50 the unique instrument  is designed for creating atmospheric sounds, microtonal music, background music, super polyphonic electro symphonies, as well as for making movie soundtrack.     

 Inspired by early electronic musical developments of the last century, particularly Leo Theremin's instrument called “Harmonium” and other  weird synths like a  ANS.  This is performance oriented analogue electronic music instrument!  Variations of sounds that you can create with «SOLAR 50» are really huge. 

         SOLAR50  analog  ambient synthesiser consists of 10 voices. Each voice, in its turn, consists of 5 simple saw oscillators (2 low, 2 middle, 1 high) with a pitch controller and a mute button for each oscillator. 

Oscillators don’t have linear or logarithmic dependence from control voltage and remind of first electro musical instruments and organs generators.  Each voice is provided with an envelope (attack/release parameters) controlled by a tactile sensor.  In addition, there is a GATE-ON button for every voice, making it sound constantly, and a voice volume controller.  There are two independent LFOs and a bunch of external CV inputs on board and so called PLS connector for connecting a CV source in order to control the pitch of each of 50 oscillators and to start the envelope of any voice. Patching is possible with euro rack standard . MUTE buttons let you use from 1 up to 5 oscillators per voice, tuning in for chords, thirds, fifths and other intervals or to get a clean single note. Every oscillator has a sawtooth waveform. All voices are mixed together and then go to the effector block where you can use cartridges from ELTA CONSOLE pedal. This adds even more variety to the sound of the instrument! Every cartridge has 3 effects inside, now 12 cartridges are available, so that are 36 effects in summary like delay, pitch delay, reverb, shimmer, tremolo, chorus, flanger, phaser, filter and many more!  You can also create your own effects in special software application (available on spinsemi.com (http://spinsemi.com/)). The effector unit is based on common FV-1 chip, which is DIY friendly. It consists of cartridge slot, three effect parameters controllers, effect switch, and master volume. The SOLAR 50 has dry outputs for 5 right and 5 left voices and a general mono output from the effector, where all 10 voices are mixed. Dry outputs can be used either to create a wide stereo field, processing them through stereo reverbs, delays and other effects or for tuning as you play (If you connect a cable into a dry output, it’s signal would disappear from the overall mix)

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