Ambient VCV Solar 42 Emulator Demo

I created a partial emulation of the ELTA Solar 42 using VCV Rack free modules ( https://patchstorage.com/solar-42-emu... ). The patch emulates all 8 voices, the stereo mixer, the sequencer, the LFOs and the filters found in the hardware. There is a clean user interface and patch bay that is completely isolated from the guts of the emulator, so it is easy to work with.

This ambient piece is my very first attempt at creating something with the patch. The Solar 42 is designed to be "played", but this demo is entirely auto-generative. The Solar 42 requires all 22 oscillators and 2 modulators in the 6 drone voices to be tuned by ear. There are two V/Oct oscillators that work well with a quantizer (not included in my emulation, but can be patched in), and the sequencer. However, I opted to tune everything by ear.

There are some modules patched into the patch bay that are not strictly part of the emulator - 6 Bernoulli Switches to randomly fade in and out the drone voices, and an Air Windows providing some reverb.