Solids Sound Pack for Chromaphone 2 

Developed by renowned sound designer Francis Preve of Symplesound, Solids presents a preset collection that demonstrates the sonic versatility of Chromaphone 2. The wide range of sounds runs the gamut of essential house organs and electric pianos to cinematic textures that shimmer and evolve. A variety of electric guitar and plucked string elements as well as an array of hyper-realistic bells and chimes also augment the set.

At times, Solids blurs the line between analog, FM, and physical modeling with punchy basses, delicate plucks, and ethereal pads—perfectly suited for synthwave and soundtrack productions. These 101 patches complement beautifully the original Chromaphone 2 factory library by combining both familiar keyboard classics with utterly unique experimental textures.

Who’s Francis Preve?

For over 20 years, Francis Preve has been intimately involved with every aspect of synthesis. From his legendary preset work for companies including Ableton, Dave Smith Instruments, Korg, Xfer Records, and Roland to iconic club hits as a DJ/producer. As a college professor and journalist, Preve thoroughly understands the specifics of sound design at a quantum level.

THE 101 PRESETS OF SOLIDS

Basses

Precision Orgbass

Transient Bass

Kicks and Percussions

Synthwave Kick

Melodic Tymbale

Steam Monster

The Gong Show

Tympanica

Keys and Organs

Faux Lo Piano

Harpiano

Reedvibes

Rhodesian

Cave Organ

Distant Drawbars

Grabbing Hands

Them & Us

Mallets, Bells, and Chimes

Bellarina

Echo Toy

Mellow Island

Millerrific

NOFX

Additive Bell

Beautiful Clattering

Carillon

Churchtower

Clavierbell

Organic Bell

Tuned Symbols

Fauxecho Chime

Sylvan Chime

Leads and Pads

Analog Layering

Chuggin Metal

Dirty Mouth

Marina

Air LAX

Crystalline Breath

Ephemeral Pad

Internal Motion

Pad Layer

Phased Strings

Polyhumana

Sacred Pad

Shimmershine

Squarepad

Thinalog

Arpeggios, Layers, Rhythms, and Sequences

12 String Dulcimer

Abbey Arpeggiator

Analog Dulcimer

Cathedral

Dreamtime

Film & TV Ready

Haunting of the Bells

Lullappeggio

Mallet Space

Morning After

Rainforest Chase

Rubberpeggio

S&H Mode

Solid Bass 100

Unipeggio

Vintage Anapluck

Wolfen Hunger

Punctuator

Hybridizer

Wobblebongo

Big Ol' Bass

Future House Bass

Hausbass

House Organ

Major Rhythm

Scatterpluck

Sixteen Rhythm

Guitars and Plucks

Edge Mutes

Guitar Intro

Nuance

Chamber Performance

Graj Mahal

Mac's Pluck

Pizzicato

Psycherock

Squareverb

Tykopluk

Strings

Rich and Thin

Stringsynth

Stringvox

Textures

Airy Swell

Ambient Generator

Beam Me Up Pad

Butterflutter

Federation Orchestra

Granular Methodologies

Harmonic Waves

Mysterious Occurence

Sonariffic

The Mangler

Whispering Winds

Choirs

Choir, yep.

Symplesoft

Brass and Winds

Majestic Horn

Melancholia

Steps Ahead

Zarrarr

WORKS TWO WAYS

Solids was created with the Chromaphone 3 acoustic object synthesizer. You can obviously play and edit the sounds in Chromaphone 3, but you can also access and play them via the free AAS Player included with your Solids purchase.

AAS Player—included with purchase

Distraction-free playing experience
More than an hundred free extra presets via Swatches

Chromaphone 3—sold separately

Sound manipulation at the source core
Starting point for new sound design ideas

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WINDOWS · MACOS · 64-BIT
VST2 · VST3 · AU · AAX NATIVE · NKS · STANDALONE

Chromaphone 3 and AAS Player are compatible with nearly all DAWs.

Ableton

Live

Apple

GarageBand

Apple

Logic Pro

Apple

MainStage

Avid

Pro Tools

Bitwig

Bitwig Studio

BandLab

Cakewalk

Cockos

Reaper

Image-Line

FL Studio

MOTU

Digital Performer

Native Instruments

Komplete Kontrol

Native Instruments

Maschine

Presonus

Studio One

Reason Studios

Reason

Steinberg

Cubase

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Mac minimum system requirements*

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1 processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

PC minimum system requirements*

Windows 10 64‑bit or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).