In terms of sound, the SOLO‑TRI has exactly the same character and warmth as the Prophecy, and it's just a shame that you can't add a couple more SOLO‑TRI boards, so that you could have several Prophecy sounds within your sequences. I also found it a lot easier to navigate around the sounds available using Trinity's display (I always seem to get lost with the two button‑pushes required to select a new Program on the Prophecy). This makes it seem even better value for its £475 price tag. The set of Programs you get with the SOLO‑TRI option (which come up as Bank S) includes not only the original Prophecy patches, but also all those on the two PCMCIA cards which have recently appeared for it. But its physical modelling capabilities don't stop there, with a combination of real‑world sounds which are second only to the real thing, from bass guitars to saxes.

In terms of 'analogue' timbres, I consider it the best‑sounding monophonic synth since the greats of the '70s and '80s, and the only thing still in production which can hold a candle to them.

The Prophecy from which this board is taken is a completely unique synth, both in terms of the breadth of sounds it can produce and the way it has of grabbing your attention, whatever else is going on in a piece of music. But in the real world, does it make sense to keep all your eggs in one basket? Let's take a look at each option in turn and see how it stacks up against dedicated devices doing the same sort of job. This makes a fully‑expanded Trinity prime candidate for the one luxury item a modern musician might choose to take to his desert island. What is unique about the Trinity concept is that all of these things can be crammed into one keyboard. The first synth to feature the ADAT digital interface was the Alesis Quadrasynth. Synths as varied as the Yamaha SY85 and the Kurzweil K2000 have been able to add computer memory to load samples into, and the Ensoniq ASR10 had a software update a few years back which added hard disk recording to its capabilities. The Solo board's physical modelling technique has been available for over a year, as the incredibly successful Prophecy synth. But once you start adding options, it seems there's very little it can't do - including physical modelling synthesis, loading of user samples, hard disk recording, and digital interfacing (ADAT and SCSI formats).Įach of these options in itself is nothing new. Even in its basic form, it offers a great breadth of timbres and more DSP effects horsepower than anything else on the market. In the 'All Things To All Men' stakes, the Korg Trinity series (reviewed SOS December '95/January '96) appears to have more bases covered than most of its rival workstation products. Now they're all finally available, Paul Wiffen takes stock of the options. When the Korg Trinity was launched more than a year ago, the list of expansions it would be able to host seemed too good to be true.

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