The Anderton’s video mentioned Jarre, but most (if not all) of the Berlin School acts used one. The Air Supply comment is a little short sighted in that it would be a lot easier to list the artists in the 70s that didn’t use one at some point, than those that did. Back in the day, that’s about all you ever saw in the string synth signal path. Personally, if I was going to add-on any effect, at all, it would be only an RE-201 Space Echo (and not a “cheesy” digital emulation, either). The whole point of emulating a classic analog instrument from the 70s, is to do just that. I’m kind of surprised at the selection of the Small Stone for the phaser emulation, since I think a Phase-90 would be more niche specific. In fact, I think I would be pretty satisfied with an authentic recreation of any of the better 70s string machines. While I would have preferred a recreation of the Univox Stringman (that had even fewer controls), this will definitely do the trick for me. But for those who want a surefire way to dial in the Solina sound, getting an analog recreation of it will be the next best thing to a totally restored vintage unit. It’s normal that the Solina will be divisive, because its sound didn’t endure in popular music the way the Minimoog did after the 1970’s. I’d expect a large segment of the target market is looking to recreate sounds they heard on records from the 1970’s, without too many modern bells and whistles getting in the way. I guess moving some things around the front panel wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would make patch reproduction more difficult for a beginner. Significantly altering the layout or sound composition would render them as middle-of-the-pack modern synths, rather than authentic recreations of classics. I think what some folks are missing is that the Behringer Solina and the Model D are created to give users a reasonably authentic experience of using vintage synths, including being able to reproduce sounds as they would have sounded before, either by following patch sheets or front panel photos, or by experimenting.
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