by John Bowen » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:59 am
Weston Underwood wrote:Hi
I've got an order in with Thomann for a Solaris and I'm obviously very excited. So I've two questions:
1. Are there any ordering options other than colour, is there some sort of mod wheel / bend wheel option?
2. Is the SPDIF just 44/48k or will it do 96k (which would I would have thought been better)
Cheers in advance
Mike
Hello Mike,
Short answers
1) the first 50 pre-customers, long ago, had the lighted wheel options, for which I did the work personally of constructing (the LED wheel kit was about $125 extra). However, I’m no longer doing these by hand, so there is no ‘official’ option. You can, though, order the kit from synthwood.com, and install yourself.
Recently, one of my French customers did this, and I think he was going to write up a description of how it went, which I will post somewhere here.
2) The S/PDIF chip in the Solaris is set at 48 kHz output, and there was no easy way to change it internally, so if you use the Solaris as the Master in your digital system, all runs at 48 kHz. However, if the Solaris runs as a Slave to another Master clock, you can make it run at 96 kHz.
john b.
[quote="Weston Underwood"]Hi
I've got an order in with Thomann for a Solaris and I'm obviously very excited. So I've two questions:
1. Are there any ordering options other than colour, is there some sort of mod wheel / bend wheel option?
2. Is the SPDIF just 44/48k or will it do 96k (which would I would have thought been better)
Cheers in advance
Mike[/quote]
Hello Mike,
Short answers :-)
1) the first 50 pre-customers, long ago, had the lighted wheel options, for which I did the work personally of constructing (the LED wheel kit was about $125 extra). However, I’m no longer doing these by hand, so there is no ‘official’ option. You can, though, order the kit from synthwood.com, and install yourself.
Recently, one of my French customers did this, and I think he was going to write up a description of how it went, which I will post somewhere here.
2) The S/PDIF chip in the Solaris is set at 48 kHz output, and there was no easy way to change it internally, so if you use the Solaris as the Master in your digital system, all runs at 48 kHz. However, if the Solaris runs as a Slave to another Master clock, you can make it run at 96 kHz.
john b.