From the course: Learning the Arturia Collection
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Solina V history - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Learning the Arturia Collection
Solina V history
- [Presenter] Back in the day, in order to have strings, you had to hire a full orchestra. It was pretty impractical for studios to hire a small orchestra, except for the most prominent artists. So the stage was set for an instrument that would help fill these needs. Harry Chamberlin was one of the first people to attempt to solve this problem. He aimed to trigger strips of magnetic recording tape from an organ-style keyboard. His first device played back pre-recorded drum loops, and he followed this with a series of keyboards that would play tapes of various orchestral instruments. The age of samplers began with analog tapes. A bit of competition led to an overlap between the Chamberlin products and the younger cousins, the Mellotrons. In the mid-1960s, Ken Freeman saw firsthand the need for an instrument to help him reproduce the string arrangements of popular music when his band played live shows. But a Mellotron was out of the question for various reasons. He discovered through…
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