Depends on what “learning the device” means to you. Or, put differently, what you want to do with it. You can pick up the basics of the Solar 42f quite quickly as most of its components aren’t that complicated. Still, you can go very deep with it too which makes it a great instrument to grow with. So I guess you can get started with pleasing results in just a few hours and you will get better and better the more you play it. Of course, some knowledge about how a synthesiser works (like what is a VCO, an LFO, a mixer etc.) will help. Also, some basic ideas about music (what makes for an interesting piece (contrast in timbre and energy for instance) etc.) will help you get where you want. On the other hand, it’s definitely not your standard first synthesiser. It’s a very specific and niche approach to making music or sounds. Still, I’m sure it’s very enjoyable for an absolute beginner as long as you don’t want to force it to make a banger techno track :)
I'd say it would depend a lot on if you know what you want it to sound like. The touch sensitive keyboard can be mapped to different musical scales, but the drone synths aren't in any scale. You just have to tune each oscillator in each drone by ear until it sounds like something you want, it might be a harmonic chord or something really dissonant. Then you need to figure out how to work with patch cables and route different things of the synth into different places to change the sound in amazing, sometimes horrible ways. It's a really cool, really expensive, and really strange synth. And I definitely want one xD
Very good Nate! 👍👍👍
very nice, i just wish it went on for a bit longer! more please more!
nice and creepy! I am thinking about getting one.
How long do you think it takes to learn the device without much music making experience?
Leaving a comment because I also wanna know
Depends on what “learning the device” means to you.
Or, put differently, what you want to do with it.
You can pick up the basics of the Solar 42f quite quickly as most of its components aren’t that complicated. Still, you can go very deep with it too which makes it a great instrument to grow with.
So I guess you can get started with pleasing results in just a few hours and you will get better and better the more you play it.
Of course, some knowledge about how a synthesiser works (like what is a VCO, an LFO, a mixer etc.) will help. Also, some basic ideas about music (what makes for an interesting piece (contrast in timbre and energy for instance) etc.) will help you get where you want.
On the other hand, it’s definitely not your standard first synthesiser. It’s a very specific and niche approach to making music or sounds. Still, I’m sure it’s very enjoyable for an absolute beginner as long as you don’t want to force it to make a banger techno track :)
@@evenmind-music oh thank you for your info sir!!!!
I'd say it would depend a lot on if you know what you want it to sound like. The touch sensitive keyboard can be mapped to different musical scales, but the drone synths aren't in any scale. You just have to tune each oscillator in each drone by ear until it sounds like something you want, it might be a harmonic chord or something really dissonant. Then you need to figure out how to work with patch cables and route different things of the synth into different places to change the sound in amazing, sometimes horrible ways. It's a really cool, really expensive, and really strange synth. And I definitely want one xD