Looking at what his equipment list seemed to be around that time it must indeed have been the Solina!
I use Stringer for the intro pad (mixed with a bit of this and that from M1 and Wavestation). My absolute favorite Solina (and more) VST! Just needs to be jBridged, since thereâs no 64 bit version available.
Add a bit of OP-X and it sounds pretty convincing - see their demo.
Cheers,
Torsten
Stringer is nice! âŚ
Here you go:
From Rick Humphries who engineered âShine Onâ:
On the finished record, Part I commences with the looped sound of wet fingers rubbing wine glass rims, originally recorded for an album titled Household Objects. Rick Wright then builds on this with a Hammond organ as well as the synth sounds of an EMS VCS3, ARP Solina and Minimoog before Dave Gilmour plays an extended G-minor blues solo on his Fender Strat.
Gilmour still occasionally uses wine glasses on stage for the âpadâ intro.
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It reminds me of a Mu-Tron BiPhase I used to have, which was pretty similar to the ensemble phase-shifters in a lot of string machines. Wonder if that was the secret sauce.
I believe it was the secret sauce. I am going to get this and experiment with it:
http://www.atomhub.net/Wine_Glass.html
Cause I drinks my wine from the bottle. Ripple 2017, brown bag label.
The wine glasses you mean- yeah thatâs a cool layer. Itâs not the shimmer though.
It might shimmer when you add the other 4 instruments Rick Wright used.
I have tried this setup with guitarâŚis very cool. Not the shimmer, but good for one person. It is called the sound on sound effect:
Hereâs another Shine On cover (very freely interpreted 
) live from a pub gig - pardon the sloppy playing; was the first time we ever played this live; our guitarist was super-nervous, since his buddy had bet that he would mess up completelyâŚ
hmmm⌠sharing via Dropbox doesnât seem to work - putting it on my website for the momentâŚ
Here is the corresponding Cantabile song - one of my more complex onesâŚ:
Cheers,
Torsten
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Still need to dig my shine on intro out, but here are a few âaudience snippetsâ from Pure Floyd and Welsh Floyd
First one is quite funny due to all the Welsh Pub audience banter and the camera man, but hopefully you can hear the music. This was a warm up gig circa 2009, in very cramped conditions that we did in a local valleys pub. And spot the deliberate mistake at the end of Hey You when somebody forgot to stop the vocal echo!
This was pre-Cantabile days. Organ sounds were NI B4II. Synth lead and bass synth are my beloved Nord G2 Engine (Neil will know!), pads would have been Motif Rack ES, and samples (like the Hey You piano ping) in an old Yamaha A4000! Oh, the âwormsâ sound in Hey You was the Nord G2 again.
And here is a bit of Shine On from the build up - not sure why they missed the intro! This would be mainly Korg Kronos (intro pad, organ and synth lead), with a bit of Arturia Solina on the Cantabile backing track, and as the sax player couldnât make it for that gig, we have him on the backing track as an option (Cantabile song states)
Another thing out of interest, whilst the high up lights were the venue lights, the ones lower down are my DMX lights all synced to the backing track and controlled via DMXIS inside Cantabile.
Other vids from my time in the bands seem to have been deleted from Youtube which is a bit annoyingâŚ
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Which âStringerâ vst do you use? I have one by FalkeLab but I see there is also one by Sonicprojects. Or are they the same thing? Iâve had mine for a while, so maybe another company took it over.
edit: I just noticed an earlier post with a link. I am still wondering if I have the same thingâŚ
He was talking about the SonicProjects. He gave a link to it:
The FalkeLab may be an early version, but if you listen to the sample audio on both, there is no comparison. SonicProjects hands down.
East Coast Racer: great! Love it
And I love all the genesisian & floydian tunes
Ooh, I had forgotten all about this thread âŚ
Whilst it was tragic Big Big Train tragically losing David Longdon, their new album âThe Likes of Usâ is really good and well worth checking out.
But to pay tribute to Davidâs fantastic vocal talent, I would also recommend listening to David Bainbridgeâs track âTo Gain the Oceanâ from his most recent solo album âTo The Far Awayâ, which features David Longdon duetting with Sally Minnear (daughter of Kerry Minnear from Gentle Giant). It is sublime.
My latest find is a Norwegian Band called Kalandra. I think they are wonderful and something different. It is strange watching them as they donât have a bass player which makes it a little different, so the drummer is carrying all the rhythm.
And I am looking forward to IQâs new albumâŚ
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Using Cantabile for quite some years in my two cover bands.
dDT (Dream Theater) : https://youtu.be/cR80ZXWVjGM?si=ir_K0QlhmTpFcmSp
E.C.H.O.E.S (Pink Floyd) : https://www.echoes.band/
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Yes very good band indeed
And also the decentered location of the drummer is strange
And again, I see very little people filming with smartphones, instead of looking with their eyes that is way better to me
Well, even if I am just a mousier, I dare putting some link here only because I am far away, too far to be hit by rotten tomatoes thrown by you, LOL