If you want to hear VC 340 with the small stone, check out this video: • Behringer VC340 with E... • Behringer Synthesizers PS: I compensated for the Small Stone's big volume drop in post production.
Thank you for the comparison. I wish that part had been a little longer. Sometimes I think I should get the VC340 the strings are a little darker or richer and it has the choir. When you turn on the Solina the sound of my childhood comes swooshing back and that emotional connection can't be denied.
''the sound of my childhood comes swooshing back and that emotional connection can't be denied.'' i think that why i love synthersizer music .. heard them alot in my childhood. games .TV shows..cartoon stuff..! im from 90's early
I love that Pink Flyodish sound, but this is one I"m passing on, as beautiful as it sounds..it's not the sound I"m going for. Guess that gives me some wiggle room to hopefully get the Crave and Edge, or possibly the pro800.
Once you understand basic circuitry, it ain't hard to replicate it. The challenge used to be finding the correct components. These days you can simply make your own.
I have Strymon Mobius pedal. In the Chorus effect section there's different modes. The mode "multi" is completely imitates solina ensemble chorus!!! (With few other adjustments of level, depth, rate, and tone. Tweak it and you'll nail the exact solina tone!!!
When I hear the Small Stone, I hear the Oxygene. I don't have the same feeling with different phasers (including Small stone clones - Vintage Phaser in Solina or even SmallStone Nano from EHX)
Is that a bug that it's impossible to activate "HORN" individually (without TRUMPET)? Or is it a "feature" (in case the original Solina might have shown the same behaviour back in the days)?
From what I understood, it's not a "bug", it's an original behavior. Horn is an variation of trumpet, it's just differently set fixed filter, so you can't have both at the same time, when it's one sound generator going thru one filter, but the filter setting has two presets - trumpet and horn. PS: I have few vintage synths, they just have some limitations and quirky features
Didnt jmj use a tape delay on some uses of the strings too? Jmj also eqd down the strings as it was very balsy in the mix. I will comment to disappoint the jmj fans that there is a difference between the eminents strings and the solina strings.
I ran through that song a bit to see what you said and I actually think it was the strings section of a mellotron with some reverb and delay, didn't really have a string synth sound to it.
Holland/Netherlands. Also very close to Germany. One time in history it was a bit too close for comfort. But since then, no problems, only the good stuff.
I have mine now. I like it a lot. Even though it comes with a built-in phaser, I suggest trying the Behringer Bi Phase, as well. It is a sweet, smooth phaser.
You can hear the differences - Solina has "lushier" sound and more possibilities of sound modification plus mono bass; on the other hand VC340 has stereo ensemble sound, which is really 3D and immersive. Plus VC340 has unique analog choir and great analog vocoder. One just has to have both 😁
The VC340 strings are colder and thinner. But combined with the choir (with a little bit of vibrato) they sound good. It’s a shame that Behringer has‘t put a stereo out on the solina because it would have been a simple resistor network (the old organs had a stereo headphone output and a 3-channel-output for an amplifier). Greetings from Germany! 🙂🇩🇪🤝
It’s not always obvious which you’re playing … except for the sound. The VC340 seems a lot softer/warmer … the Solina, brighter/buzzier? Is that right?
Well, Small Stone sounds a little bit better. It's not a big difference, but it's there. And I just wanted to do a comparison video, that I personally would search for
It's basically good for one cool classic proto-prog rock sound, and that's it. But given how cheap it is, it doesn't put a dent in your wallet. You pay for *that* sound. But then again, it's nothing without the phase shifter, so you have to factor that in.
You have very narrow view on it. A creative musician can use any instrument in whatever context he think will work for his vision of a project. Furthermore, sound of Solina is not that common in recent music (of the recent decades), so it is not overused now, which again helps for using it more creatively. Just my opinion.
This one really confuses me (Solina) I get exactly the same sound from a microkorg and an nts-1 but if people want to waste their money harping back to the good old days of crappy old keyboards that's their affair😂 VC340 is a great synth with vocoder.
well, although I love Microkorg and it has one sound in that sonic territory, it is way different; certainly it is not "exactly the same sound". Solina just has that vintage tone of great 70s classics (Oxygene, Animals from Pink Floyd...), that is inimitable
the microkorg only has 4 note polyphony. the solina has full paraphony, meaning the solina can play every key simultaneously but with only one envelope for everything. another quirk of the solina that won't be replicated is the solina's oscillator phasing as it uses divide down circuitry, which gives it a specific sound. of course, the microkorg is amazingly flexible and if you're looking for a good synth for cheap then look no further. the solina however is for those that are looking for THAT sound.
microKORG has huge aliasing (because is old digital tech), whereas Solina is immune to that (because is analog). You can tell that by hearing the highest frequencies.
