Solstice A3 / Audio Workstation

Solstice A3 wants to make beautiful music with you.

Introducing the 3rd generation of Solstice. Powerful, expandable, affordable and oddly beautiful. All that starting at just $1499.

Introducing Solstice A3 Video + Graphics Workstation, a high performance computer designed to work with your creative software from Adobe Premiere to Maya. This is what it's like when your computer can keep up with your creativity.

Solstice A3 - Audio Workstation

Incredible Power

Experience the new Intel "Sandy Bridge" Core processors and up to 32 gigabytes of memory. Yeah, that's some real power.
Learn more...

Designed For Your Software

Tested and tuned for the ultimate performance with Pro Tools, Cubase, SONAR and all your creative software and hardware.
Learn more...

Creative Computer Support

Support designed for creative people. Rain helps you stay in the creative zone. You provide the inspiration, we'll take care of the rest.
Learn more...

An audio workstation designed with you in mind.

Spend more time making music.

You want to add all those tracks. You want to put reverb on everything. You fell in love with the perfect piano sound. Now what you need is a computer designed to keep up with all those demands. A system that grinds through all your tracks and plug-ins without breaking a sweat. Meet the new Solstice A3 Audio Workstation. You'll be very happy together.

Deep inside this aluminum beast is a core that will not quit. We're talking next-generation processor technology, room to expand your memory to an astounding 32 gigabytes and huge hard drive storage - up to 6 terabytes - that runs so fast you'll never hear a glitch again. What's next? Oh yeah: make some music.

Solstice A3 designed for audio production

Time for a performance boost.

Intel Xeon quad-core and 6-core processors How about 30-50% more power than the last Solstice. Not bad, right? Introducing the Intel "Sandy Bridge" Core i3, i5 and Core i7 processors, a quantum leap in power. Just 32 nanometers thick and ready to blow the doors off that studio of yours. Throw whatever you got at it. More tracks. More plugs. More synths. Solstice A3 just eats it all up and begs for more. It's time to finish that album and start the next one.

Rain's Quiet Cool™ Design. Shhh...

Quiet Cool prevents glitches, dropouts, heat and noise

Quiet Cool™ Design is what makes Solstice A3 virtually silent. It also means an end to data bottlenecks - the kind that cause audio and video dropouts when they're least welcome. And there's no need to worry about heat. An intelligent cooling system keeps everything under control without sounding like a jet engine. All you have to do is make music.

Windows 7, tuned by Rain for Creative Computing.

Windows 7 tuned by Rain for Audio and Video It's not what you say, it's how you say it. Introducing the world's most powerful, stable and compatible operating system for creative computing. Windows 7 tuned by Rain for audio, video and graphics production combined with a custom BIOS makes Solstice A3 the perfect workstation. This is how your software was meant to run.

Solstice A3 is designed to grow with you.

Solstice A3 includes 6 high-bandwidth PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots The day you decide you need a new video card, more hard drives and some extra memory is the day you fall in love with Solstice A3 all over again. With an array of high bandwidth PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots plus legacy PCI for your older gear, upgrading is diabolically simple. Add more drives, add up to 32 gigabytes of memory and watch it go.