John Bowen Synth Design

I'll be making an update to all pre-order customers probably around the end of September/1st week of October. Still picking some things for final spec, so no finished manual yet, but if you have specific questions regarding a favorite function you have in mind, please ask.
-cheers,
john b.

Why would I be an imposter on my own site? re: samples for Wavestation - those would have had to come from the Korg sound library...along with all the other samples I had to deal with - they all came from Korg Japan, I believe. I just got to process them, and in some cases, got to make some weird th...

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I am introducing (via my Zarg Music site www.zargmusic.com) a 'spin-off' device from my Quantum Wave synth (which was originally commissioned by Hans Zimmer to recreate his Waldorf Wave). This device will be called the Quantum Wave SE, for 'Single Edition'. It's basically one of the four Instruments...

Here are the four basic filter types (all set to Lowpass) in full resonance with a downward cutoff sweep. The first example is just the filters self-oscillating, with no signal input. The second example puts a low C sawtooth wave into the mixer as signal input. The order of the four is: MultiMode 1 ...

We actually did discuss this at great length during one of our trips to Germany last year (in September). The few other choices we were able to get examples of just didn't do the trick (we had yellow and orange ones I seem to recall), and ultimately we all thought it was preferable to go the route o...

The new Rhodes system was developed by Stefan Stenzel exclusively for Rhodes. It is not licensable to any other product line. I'm guessing it's a form of 'time & flight' sensing, which we used on the Prophet T8, but I don't really know the details. john b. p.s. Dave Sesnak, of Wine Country Seque...

Thanks Chris...you nailed exactly what it is I am hoping to provide with the Solaris Interface. I look forward to getting user feedback about such things as parameter paging and function, as these can be always be tweaked in a later OS version if needed (hopefully I will have provided something from...

Is there a beta version with some PAT-implementation now? How is the polyphonic aftertouch different than normal aftertouch in this case, when individual notes as I understand it can't be modulated..? /Knut So far, the testing shows that PAT does not work as expected in the plugins. There's some is...

Over the last day or so I've had some emails from a person who had some issues with the Audio Demos I've posted (http://www.johnbowen.com/audio-examples.html). From this, I've decided I needed to add some clarity to the text explanations regarding 2 specific examples - the 'PanMod' and the 'Noise in...

Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Can you please tell us if you are in a stage where you are actually refining things perhaps? We are going through a To Do list that includes whatever UI refinements I've come up with. As for adding more features - it's SO tempting, and I keep thinking of more things t...

Yannis, All pre-order customers have been updated as to the current production schedule. We have some months yet before we are ready to ship. I know that many are curious to hear and play with the Solaris first-hand, most likely at your favorite music store or dealer, however, we do not plan to have...

John, can you please tell us if any of the filters in the Solaris self-oscillates? If so how does it handle the resonance buildup close to 12 KHz? Do the filters use oversampling internally or is there something like a soft compressor to keep the buildup well-behaved? Also can you please tell us ho...

Marzzz, I completely agree about your point to keep favorite analogs around! Even if you have the emulated components of something (for example, the Minimax filter, oscillator, and VCA), the way you arrange the audio path, the other variations, all tend to affect the final result (in my opinion), an...

I think I expressed myself a bit poorly. :) I was actually wondering whether Bowen is using the same creamware osc and filter atoms in his Solaris synth, or new updated/improved DSP models. Arstein, While some of the code was taken from the Minimax and Pro-12 ASBs as a starting point, all of it had...