Behringer SOLINA Strings: Getting Creative!

[@kevinsturges6957]

The ARP Solina has a completely different charecter than the Roland String synths of the era. It doesn’t sound futuristic, slick and happy, it sounds really dark and old. A great addition to anyones setup. We are so lucky Behringer is bringing these back again, and for the first time with MIDI control. 😊

[@PorchBass]

The gated strings sound lovely. I have rarely heard them sound so organic. Much better than I remember!

[@cooltrades7469]

Could be in Vangelis or Jarre music . Anywhere. Ok, here they went to some more contemporary approach. But the sound in itself sent me to in those times.

[@Murray_Browne]

Well that was just bloody awesome. I received the B Solina a week ago and only in the last couple of days realised the potential for running it through filters and gates. I was going to start with the 2600. Really enjoyed this video

[@sebbwen]

The gated strings sound so cool!! definitely need to try this, thanks

[@synthnerd4539]

Nice. I've got the VC340 and really enjoy it, and a Streichfett which I hardly use. And an ancient Korg Lambda and Roland RS-101, both of which are broken... the Solina sound is such a classic. Good to see a Casio RZ-1 in the background! I used to have one for many years, and it's one of the very few pieces I regret selling.

[@winesynths]

The problem with the Solina is that I already got a copyright strike! And not from Jean-Michel! No! From a random Italo-Dude who played some random chords on a Solina! 😂🇮🇹 Make Casio great again! 🤖

[@entropybentwhistle]

⁠@@winesynthsNothing worse than a case of Twerpus Interruptus from a rando.

[@mrfuzztone]

I also have a Lambda that I need to get working. And a VC340. And a friend recently sold me a VP-330 MK1. And I have a RS-505 I will be getting the Solina clone. What the heck. Great sound. Should be enough string machines. Ha. Oh yeah, lots of VST string machines such as GForce VSM and XILS.

[@synthnerd4539]

@@mrfuzztone "enough string machines" 😂 👀

[@cmplns]

Very nice examples and demonstrations - Thank you!

[@cosmicdrone5270]

Another amazing video! Thank you!

[@Taprecords]

Love this! Can’t wait to pick one up. 😎

[@Lance_Arn]

Lovely, and thanks for the demo.. My B.Solina is paid for and hopefully will be here in a few weeks..

[@ashfaq1999]

Great video. I’ve got the original solina. The behringer solina with the phaser built in sounds great. Would like behringer to make a logan string melody 2 or the elka rapsody version.

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

Subbed for dopeness.very nice surprise in my feed

[@starglider101]

The gate rave strings is one of the most beutiful I hear in that kind, thank you Sir!

[@winesynths]

Dankeschön! 🤖

[@MJanovicable]

Love the gated rave track, taking me back 30 years, reminding me of Psychic TV, but not derivative, love it all! The Solina's definitely on my buy list. Addendum: This Berlin Schule track is wunderbar! I'm taken back to the 1980s when I began listening to Tangerine Dream, around 1983. That same year I bought a cut-out of "Rubycon" in the Loop in Chicago (I was accosted walking to the cash register by a Vietnam Vet, but, for another time...) and was sold completely. I love the post-Baumann era until Schmoelling then Franke left, around 1988 when I moved on. But I wrote them in 1985 and they sent a wonderful signed postcard with a group photo of them circa 1984-85 with a then-current discography on the other side, and a form letter, also signed! It's nestled safely in my Relativity box set for the first five albums. Prima!

[@winesynths]

Probably you know more than me about this stuff! I just once had a couple of Warsteiners with Klaus Schulze at an aftershow party. He was a funny guy! Otherwise, I am more influenced by the Düsseldorf school! 🤖🤖🤖🤖

[@MJanovicable]

@@winesynths Oh yes, I love Kraftwerk just as much as TD!

[@MJanovicable]

@@winesynths I first heard "Autobahn" in 1974, I was six! It hit the top 49 in the US in shortened form. We were in a VW bug, papa driving.

[@winesynths]

@@MJanovicable excellent! 👍

[@Sycokay]

You deserve a lot more followers.

[@winesynths]

Sehr freundlich! 🤖🍀👍

[@jean-louispech4921]

Wonderful sound , ocngratulation

[@ConwayBob]

That thing (the BSolina) sounds WAY better than I had expected. What a lovely demonstration!!! Paraphrasing what I said a few days ago: Behringer needs to put you on their payroll!

[@unduloid]

Bolina?

[@dalehubert-c9b]

Great channel! greetings from Canada!

[@winesynths]

Bonjour and welcome! 🤖

[@chriswareham]

Love the gated rave strings! I used to do something similar with a DBX noise gate by feeding the trigger pulse from my Kawai drum machine. I really must get another one of those noise gates and the matching "Over Easy" compressor.

[@winesynths]

unfortunately I did not have a working hardware gate. Would have been even nicer to demonstrate! 🤖

[@michaelpierce3264]

superb as always!

[@electrolytics]

Cool shirt. Love that Bitburger!

[@winesynths]

I had it on offer at Spreadshirt, but they canceled it for copyright reasons! 😪

[@jeansebtremblay]

My kind of jam :)

[@jtechnuts]

Love the tricorder 🤓

[@xinjoy6236]

The trance track you improvised should be released and played in DJ set !

[@winesynths]

Don‘t worry! It was the beginning of a new track that will soon be released on our label! drehstrom.bandcamp.com/

[@klstay]

Why are you doing this to me!?! I had decided I did not need this! Fabulous stuff here in any case...

[@winesynths]

Sorry! 🤭

[@newtronix]

A good vintage!

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

Nice! What's the little gadget on the right at 0:54 ?

[@winesynths]

Starfleet Tricorder. 🤖🖖🏼

[@Gainn]

The dystopian one is very Blake's 7. Pretty sure they used a Solina in some of the incidental music though the main theme sounds more like a Logan String Melody.

[@winesynths]

Blake's 7! 😂 Even as an extreme sci-fi fan, I didn't know it. Looks like the ultimate Trash TV Evening! And it definitely sounds like a String Ensemble with a Phaser. Logan, Solina, never mind! Dankeschön! 🤖

[@Gainn]

@@winesynths It's a really dark experience at times, but also rewarding. There are some gloriously cheesy but wonderful bits of background music that will have you trying to figure out what it was made on.

[@winesynths]

@@Gainn Ok! Speaking trash! Do you know „Raumschiff Orion“? 😁

[@Gainn]

@@winesynths not heard of that one. Will have a look.

[@Sonikbytes]

I've always wondered how did the pros run a reverb though a reverb without the sounding a total mush? how to make this sound this great ?

[@winesynths]

EQs! Those old reverbs always had EQs on board. The first thing you will probably do is to make a Lowcut in the Reverb. As soon as Bass is removed from your reverb signal you’ll gain a lot of space to play with the different verbs. And then it‘s like cooking! 🍀

[@REY-KOFF]

Wie immer, eine tolle Rezension, Bruder! Klassische Klänge. Solina ist ein normales Gerät für seinen Preis. Ich schreibe dir heute auf Deutsch! Ich liebe die alte Schule der elektronischen Musik

[@winesynths]

Ah! Buenos Dias! Jetzt kann ich das besser lesen, als mit den russischen Buchstaben! 😎

[@REY-KOFF]

@@winesynths Ich sehe, du hast keinen Sommer - es regnet🤣😂🤣😂🤣! Ich wollte immer wieder fragen, warum du eine Matriarchin statt 37 genommen hast? Ich mag 37 besser und es gibt dort Voreinstellungen - es ist bequemer!

[@winesynths]

@@REY-KOFF Ich brauche keine Presets! ☺️

[@REY-KOFF]

@@winesynthsто плохого в пресетах? Раньше они плохие были и по этому не нужны! А сейчас все хорошие практически

[@winesynths]

?? Què?

[@jjrusy7438]

After hearing several solina demos, I think this piece has been preserved for posterity. I think the Toro is similar in that respect. These are primitive one-trick ponies which will sit on the shelf after the video fodder and vintage ooh-ahh fades. Mellotron is also one of these types of gear. (I have an ehx mel9 pedal for when I want some mellotron. It sits on the shelf most of the time, but it was only $160us, but still, it sits)

[@winesynths]

I was talking about this in my first review. It‘s a very limited but wonderful sound. Like the VC vocoder I won‘t use it in every track. But when it’s needed it delivers instantly. Also the paraphony and the way the voices interact is difficult to achieve with plugins. I also recommended the Solina V from Arturia as an alternative, which sounds awesome too! 🤖

[@darrenringer9811]

Something about the simplicity and minimalism of these old string machines I think is sort of timeless, even if the sound is definitely dated and retro in large respects. Hearing it with more modern techniques as in this video is really cool. I think that these will be around for a long time and I expect the sound itself to make a comeback in the coming years thanks to the proliferation of these.

[@marbar1844]

This is a mindset I don’t get… the mentality that something that does one thing awesomely is less worthy than something that does 20 things passably. On the other hand, Being able to buy these things even cheaper than already will be sweet.

[@gadjox]

This sounds like the perfect instrument to have a sample library of. That's what keeps me from buying it.

[@macronencer]

That will work fine as long as you have a suitable phaser to stick on the output (assuming you want that sound).

[@CrusaderGeneral]

Behringer is a paradigm shift that keeps on shifting..

[@winesynths]

As long as there are no SHIFT buttons with menus on the Synths everything is fine! 🤖

[@CrusaderGeneral]

@@winesynths good one 😉

[@x10dc90]

I was actually gonna use the behringer solina for trance once I get one, but you beat me to it. Really creative of you to adapt the solina strings on something other than disco music or oxygene haha.

[@winesynths]

Muchas Gracias Carlos! This is the reason why everybody should subscribe to Wine&Synths! 😁🤖

[@bastianmaze_beats8730]

Hey! Thanks for the video. Is the output mono or stereo? If it is stereo, Is the ensamble panned? O is everything mono? Thanks!

[@winesynths]

It‘s mono! Just like the original! For nice stereo just record your line twice and pan it LR! Sounds wonderful!

[@bastianmaze_beats8730]

@@winesynths thank you for answering! I appreciate it.

[@georgeorwell6066]

Who else is jacking to this awesome music in 2026?

[@alistairfletcher6187]

How about a comparison between the Soilina and the VC340's string section?

[@winesynths]

I was thinking about it for this video. But did not have the right idea yet. Watch out! 🤖

[@Waldemar_la_Tendresse]

Maybe a combination of both sounds instead of a comparison would be the right idea?

[@winesynths]

@@Waldemar_la_Tendresse yeah! I also thought about running the VC trough the Solina Phaser. And it‘s also extremely nice to use the Solina as a Carrier for the vocoder! 😀

[@alistairfletcher6187]

@@Waldemar_la_Tendresse I got the VC340, I want to know how different they sound so I can decide whether I should buy the Solina or not.

[@patriciaoudart1508]

👍🙏💚🧡

[@HOLODECK-MUSIC-PROJECT]

But where is se wine?

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

Great stuff I just think the Solina sound should be in every kind of music. Can you replicate this song by Harald Grosskopf - So Weit So Gut 1980 This song has so much Solina Sounds from start to finish it's insanely Awsome and creative check it out on KZbin don't know the meaning of the song but it's an Instrumental Electronic masterpiece tons of different Synths used Including the iconic Solina / also check out an artist called Federic Mercier - Spirit 1978 also Electronic Oberheim Instrumental it's also Insanely Creative Synth Bass and cool drum beats with Synths that in my opinion sounds like a Huge Locomotive announcing it's loud Horns down the Track the sounds can also be replicated by the Solina synth. You have Awsome Synthesizers in your place and great creativity it's Awsome great work.

[@winesynths]

As I said in the video, I am totally not a connoisseur of Berlin School Music… I just improvised. But actually Harald is a friend of a good friend of mine. Maybe one day I should invite one of those masters to the studio to tell us everything about it! 🤖

[@newYorkStories]

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. (S.U.P.E.R.G.E.I.L.)

[@winesynths]

D.A.N.K.E.S.C.H.Ö.N.!.!.!🤖

[@phpn99]

All I hear is the same sound all the time