ARP • Solina String Ensemble
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The Solina String Ensemble is often thought of as THE String Machine of the late 1970's disco era. It's a multi-orchestral machine with violin, viola, trumpet, horn, cello and contrabass. Instead of attack and decay there are crescendo and sustain controls (which sound more orchestral but are the same thing). Apparently this synth really makes a great string sound, but that's all really... It has gate and trigger outs from the polyphonic keyboard. Completely cased in wood (or wood-like) panels with a clean and discrete layout. It's old, it's vintage, and it's been used by Air, The Eagles, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Joy Division, OMD, Josh Wink, STYX, Tangerine Dream, Keane, Japan, and New Order.
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Mike Oldfield also used the Solina String Ensemble; you'll see him pictured with it in the booklet that came with the BOXED set.
Jean-Michel Jarre did not play the Solina, but the Eminent 310 Unique organ. But the confusion is easily made; The Solina's circuitry is taken directly from the Eminent.
Jean-Michel Jarre used both. He used the String Ensemble most on Oxygene and Equinoxe though.
On "Oxygene", Jarre used the Eminent 310U organ. He never played the Solina during his career.
Jean Michel Jarre's classic Oxygene is Solina strings put through a msallstone effects pedal....
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