Solar 42F Ambient Drone Machine - Booster

[@niancanardworks]

You finally got yours!! Welcome to the club!

[@Heavycap]

Thanks, finally have one, lots of fun and lots to learn! your my #1 inspiration!

[@carlosnieto8241]

Beautiful. This synth is amazing.

[@Heavycap]

Thanks, its a very creative synth, having some fun with it. check out my latest session with the solar 42F, its a better performance, I had some issue with this session, left reverb fx completely off the right channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpjcf5WJmdyYhZI

[@nolake]

Worked for me too. Excellent jam once again. Sounds awesome.

[@Heavycap]

thank you

[@ReflectingMe2024]

Wonderful track to demo this awesome synth. Great work Heavycap, really love the repeating sequence and ambience you created here. I can't wait to get hold of a Solar42 - if anyone reading this is in the UK and has one for sale, please get in touch 😇

[@Heavycap]

Thank you, having a lot of fun with it. There is more coming. The fastest way to get one is by ordering directly from Elta Music, all I can say is the build quality is amazing! hope you get one!

[@PaulKwitekmusic]

Great synth ! I will be back in Canada in October we could perhaps organise ambient event 💗

[@Heavycap]

Paul, that would awesome, its been too many years man, will definitely meet up.

[@synkrotron]

another amazing drone 🙂 that Solar 42f is a great device 👍

[@MichaMaschiene-jd8wd]

Amazing Synth

[@Heavycap]

Thanks, I'm really happy with it, lots to explore. Are you also a synth enthusiast?

[@MichaMaschiene-jd8wd]

@@Heavycap Synthesizer Lover , and all Kinds of FX Maschines ...

[@monosnack]

FANTASTIC DRONE... the S42 is a beast, well done my friend!

[@Heavycap]

Thank you, love the ambient drones, I have lots of ideas, just need to make the time for them, going to dedicate sundays now to just do music!

[@evenmind-music]

Really good stuff mate! Looking forward to more of your music. I’m at 99% deciding to order a Solar 42 myself :)

[@Heavycap]

Thanks, will be doing a lot more session for sure. Solar is not cheap but I don't think you would regret it. I was impressed by the quality, I guess its what you get from hand built synths, everything is super strong, no loose knobs or buttons but the best of all its very creative, I feel like its a little mini euro rack. I do work long days in the salt mines to get this.

[@rickhopkinson]

Hi again 👋😃 I enjoyed this, sounded great and some good panning and experimenting… cool video mate

[@Heavycap]

Thanks Rick, I'm also enjoying going through your collection of works! Love the Dark Ambient.

[@rickhopkinson]

@@Heavycap Thank you very much for working through them mate I appreciate that a lot and I’m genuinely very happy that you’re enjoying them too! 🙏🏻💎 There’s more to come 😎

[@troglodyte6005]

swag love it

[@Heavycap]

thanks

[@skinzelectronicjams]

Hell yeah. The Solar 42... I will have to make due with my Ambient 0. Keep the tracks coming sounds great!

[@Heavycap]

Thanks Skinz, will have more coming, checking out the Ambient 0 on your channel, man you have some nice hardware, I just started building my studio/spaceship.

[@skinzelectronicjams]

@@Heavycap You got a real special piece there with the Solar 42. Thanks for the listen!

[@synthsamuraiproductions]

This is amazing brother

[@Heavycap]

Thank you Samurai, I'm an aspiring synthrenegade in the making!

[@leapold6688]

yo this is dope ! i want more , keep it up homie

[@Heavycap]

thanks, will have more

[@West1Think]

Nice one ! I'll have mine delivered within the next 10 hours, finally....

[@Heavycap]

yea, I had to wait a few months for mine but well worth the wait. you will love this synth, I guarantee you.

[@West1Think]

​@@HeavycapI am literally waiting for the doorbell to ring. I've even been tidying up the flat for the great unboxing : )

[@evenmind-music]

So how did your first days with your Solar go?

[@West1Think]

​@@evenmind-musicHi again. It was novel exciting and pleasing to the ear at first. I put it down for 5 days to finish my Trax in Bitwig for my YT channel. Free to start my first ever jam I managed in my usual style to produce a sound that would only make your nose bleed. I got some back Up from my MPCX and a beat loop in Bitwig and tried again with a slightly better result. The challenge was to move away from polished production and freestyle a jam on video, all new stuff for me. The zoom camera is charging and I will make my first attempt to make a short later on today. I have lots of kit but im a master of none. Its early days I guess. If I have no luck Its gets put under a dust sheet along with the rest of my gear and I retreat back ITB to my beloved Bitwig.... You're coming along In leaps & bounds I see. Well done !

[@Heavycap]

@@West1Think I also started with Bitwig and vst's last year and I do love it. I have some really nice vst synths like Dune 3 and Omnisphere, with such cool sequencers like Stepic I had interesting tracks going quick, however I got so hooked on the synth bug I have to explore everything including analog hardware synths. There is something nice about the physical contact with the synth, I also like the limitations/limited environment you can work in to be creative. I bought so many vst plugins after watching State Azure streams that its harder to start a session with so many options. That Solar you bought is only going to increase in price anyway, but I would say keep at it a bit, it will click. One approach that i did with this session is tunning the voices to VCO A/VCO B, so tune drone 1 to a note on the keyboard, then just work your way up the keyboard/notes to tune drone 2 and so forth, this gave me that 3 chord progression and then I just had that one 16 step sequence. At some point I'm going to do some deep dive videos with examples and pass whatever knowledge i picked up using the Solar. Its all about figuring out workflows.

[@edmc2]

😎

[@picoterramusic7242]

🔥👍

[@Heavycap]

I just checked out your Moog Sound Studio, I also got one and cant wait to mess with it and learn how to get some nice patches going with it.

[@picoterramusic7242]

@@Heavycap Great! I wait for my Solar this week and will try it out. Inspiring to see other’s videos 😀

[@Heavycap]

@@picoterramusic7242 Congrats man, its a really sweet synth, cant wait to see what you come up with. what color config did you go with?

[@picoterramusic7242]

@@Heavycap yeah, thanks 😀 Was going for the black but white was the only available now. It will be nice however 🎹😀

[@picoterramusic7242]

@@Heavycapthanks for your inspiring videos! Just updated a video with the Solar 😊

[@maxyruiz7374]

Probaste modificar estas frecuencia a 432hz seria entrar en otro plano dimensional con otro mundo😮💗🧠

[@greghuman6063]

I just flew into outer space

[@Heavycap]

Thanks Greg, I'm planning on going to outer pace every weekend!

[@refineddreed1091]

hello! this synth is great. I haven't checked the info about it yet because it's the first time I've come across it. huge potential. do you have any information whether I can get it as just a VSTI plugin for the FL studio platform?

[@Heavycap]

Hey, yea, its a really cool synth, but this is a very custom and special build that Elta Music designed here, the only thing along the lines of a software version or vst style trying to emulate it was done using VCV Rack 2 Pro, just google vcv rack solar 42, but even that isn't perfect and not as intuitive to use. I also started with a daw and vst's but let me tell you, once you buy your first hardware synth, say something like a Solar 42F you will not want to go back to software full time, the playability is unmatched, having the ability to use both hands and the physical aspects will have you in a different creative state, its not something you can replicate with a mouse in this case.

[@refineddreed1091]

@@Heavycap

[@wurlinnawurl]

I'm not sure if my next synth will be a solar 42f or a voltage lab 2... It is really hard to decide.. poly drones it complex folding and sequencing.. any advice?

[@Heavycap]

oh yea, I was looking at the voltage lab 2 as well when making the decision, very cool synth based on the research I did on it. I will at some point for sure get one. however my decision was easy after the research, the voltage lab 2 scared me a little because with that one you really need to know your stuff, I don't think it will even make a sound without patching it. maybe I chickened out for no reason but I think whatever you decided you can't go wrong with either one. I think voltage lab 2 is the most hardcore current synth I've seen!

[@giovannidebiase6850]

Is that main sequence from the unit? But its more than 5 steps is it? Can you explain ?

[@Heavycap]

Yes, this was a completely DAWless session and was only using the solar 42F. no other hardware. I was using the sequencer on the left side of the touch keyboard. So I put the keyboard into TWIN mode and then setup a sequence using the little display in between the 2 keyboards, its actually really functional and easy to use. Also lets you go beyond 5 steps. The solar 42F has 5 sequencers in total, 2x arpeggios, 2x sequencers and the 1x 5/4/3 step physical sequencer. I want to do some tutorial videos at some point and showcase this feature.

[@giovannidebiase6850]

@@Heavycap excellent..I have one arriving soon, a tutorial would be much appreciated...I also have no idea how to do chords. . tuning oscillators will b interesting!

[@Heavycap]

@@giovannidebiase6850 Same, tunning oscillators is something I have to learn as well, congrats on buying one of these. its a lot of fun sitting down with the solar, such a creative synth. what color did you go with?

[@giovannidebiase6850]

@@Heavycap cream! Pink was out of stock 🤣

[@Heavycap]

@@giovannidebiase6850 lol, let me know when you have it. cant wait to see what you come up with. its a really inspirational machine, kind of reads your mood.

[@AKDanMusicMan]

Did you mean to put all the reverb to the left and the dry signal to the right?

[@Heavycap]

no, not at all, still trying to figure this thing out, in terms of the stereo panning section I left everything in the middle and didn't touch it during this session. also I didn't use the dry out single from VCO A or VCO B, I only have the stereo WET out going to my speakers. I'm also still a bit confused as to the filter section, I do see that the solar has Filter L and Filter R, I thought its just sitting at default currently where they are linked, so only Filter L is active, will check into this. Dan, can you explain what you mean by reverb on the left and dry on the right?

[@AKDanMusicMan]

@@Heavycap if you play the video with headphones on, you hear just the reverb on the left, and the dry, or pre-reverb on the right. My 42F is supposed to be coming this month. I’m sure I’ll be in the same boat figuring this thing out.

[@Heavycap]

@@AKDanMusicMan hey, thanks, I listened with headphones and your right, i hear the reverb on the left and not on the right, I will also use headphones from now on, i hear so much more details then the speakers, what a difference. It might be that I didn't have the filters linked, I was only using Filter L and not Filter R, that might have been the issue. I will have to test that, lol, i also have to figure out how to even use the fx modules, not even sure what is loaded, it might also be that reverb fx is only loaded on one side, the left channel. cant wait until you have yours, we can help each other out figuring this beast out.

[@JessFromSquareOne]

Nice patch! Deep sounds :) This distortion circuit is such a great addition compared to the Solar42 OG version. Also how do you like the AudioFuse 16rig?

[@Heavycap]

Thanks Jess, they did add some cool new features to the F version, I just got into this and just started building the studio, first audio interface I got was a motu m6, someone suggested it but it must have had a defect because it was constantly crackling and popping, couldn't get a clean audio out of it. I then exchanged it to the EVO 16 which was great but realized it didn't have midi so did one more upgrade to the AduioFuse 16 and its truly a really nice interface, very happy with it. The software and build quality is the best I've seen, what really sold me is that I can send and receive cv data as well, it will work great with my semi modular setup that I want to build.

[@JessFromSquareOne]

@@Heavycap Thanks for the feedback. I'd like to upgrade my current mixer/recording setup as well, was shopping around and AudioFuse checks almost all my boxes, for that price at least it's a no brainer, I'm only hesitating with going the RME road instead, but then there's the price tag ... 😅

[@Heavycap]

@@JessFromSquareOne AudioFuse is not cheap but compared to RME which I was also checking out is a big difference. The few people I talked to in the industry didn't think RME is really worth the price tag. One nice offer you get with the AudioFuse 16rig is you get full licenses to all there software/vst fx modules, 12 different vst's

[@JessFromSquareOne]

@@Heavycap RME seems to shine when it comes to bigger audio deployments (Dante / MADI etc. lot of scalability) and also they seem to support very stable drivers and for a very long time. That said, I'm not pro enough to justify that luxury :) Good to know about the Arturia software bundle! I'll probably head to an AudioFuse 16 with maybe their ADAT 8 Input extension :) Thanks again!

[@helpmeiaminhell]

Just curious, how long did it take to arrive from when you placed your order? I bought one three months ago and it hasn't shipped yet.

[@Heavycap]

I think had to wait close to 3 months after ordering directly from Elta Music but well worth the wait. Solars are hand built and tested so it takes a little while but you end up with a great quality of a product. Everything is tight, no loose knobs or buttons.

[@helpmeiaminhell]

@@Heavycap awesome thanks for the info! I watch videos on this thing every day I'm so excited to get one. I know it's going to be worth every single penny. Also great video!

[@Heavycap]

@@helpmeiaminhell let me know when you get it, will be checking you channel, if you upload as well that motivates me to make more session as well.