John Bowen Synth Design

I don't see how it can be clipping the input to the motu. It gets limited by the Solaris output to the maximum digital level. So I expect it is clipping at the Solaris output. I doubt using another sound card will change anything. I think you just need to turn down the Solaris level internally, as y...

Other ways off the top of my head: - Set the Control to MaxVal and then set the Strength between 0% and -50%. - Run the modulator signal through a spare mixer and adjust the mixer level down. Then use the mixer as mod source of the oscillator pitch. If you don't have a spare mixer maybe you can pres...

Thanks for sharing your work, Mike! I've only begun to check them out since there are so many.

Hi pinmusica, In the Solaris, go to the MIDI page and make sure that MIDICtrl is On. With the Solaris USB cable plugged in, do you see John Bowen Solaris Synthesizer in Device Manager? It should be in the section called Sound, video, and game controllers. If it is there, does it have an error? What ...

This sort of thing drove me nuts more than once also. I couldn't figure out why the volume was so low. I eventually realized it was the expression pedal at a low position.

Just to explain my thinking...because I believe someone else was also not liking the wires too. The intention was to show things graphically rather than by text. I thing it's easier and faster to get a sense of how a preset is set up by seeing graphic connections. Looking at text requires a differen...

Thanks for the video. I've tried this using versions 1.4.0 and also 1.4.0.2 and I'm not yet able to reproduce it. Does it happen no matter which non-empty patch you try to load?

How about anyone else? Can you reproduce it?

Even though the Solaris runs at 96KHz internally the digital interface only runs at 48KHz. So that's working as expected.

I'd also like to know if anyone else experiences this. If it happens again, try to adjust the panning and see if that has any effect. Bypass all FX of course. Try adjusting the Out-1/2 parameter. In short, is there anything you can do by the front panel to bring Out 2 back? If you continue to have t...

John is right. The only time you need to care is if you are using an old (1.3.1 or older) OS to load a preset that was saved with 1.4.0. And then only if an oscillator was using LinFM as a modulation destination. You probably noticed in earlier OS versions that the amount for Shape and LinFM were "l...

There is a known bug in version 1.4.0.1 in which using the Compare function may mess up the modulation sources in a preset. It's possible that you've hit Compare and that changed the modulation source for pan in a VCA. If this is what's happening, please avoid using Compare for the time being. If yo...

Confirmed. Thanks!. Yes, this is new.

It's back.

My apologies for the bug in the initial release that had to be pulled back. I missed it. It wasn't something that could be left in and fixed later. At least it's out for the holiday break.

Yes, this is fixed. John decided to call it 1.4.0.1 instead of 1.4.1.

Edit: And thanks for your help cLoudForest!