John Bowen Synth Design

I know that John is building and working the SOLARIS and I heard from him recently, we will be getting them soon as works on the build in Germany. I am excited about getting mine and playing it. But, I am also excited about coding for it. I believe that he needs to move the build of these into the U...

My take is this: (just my two cents) Bowen is a USA synth designer working with a European company --- I have actually worked with some European companies, in France, and not a single one of them would wish to jeopardize the reputation of a star designer by failing to deliver: Sonic Core may be in t...

Hi, I guess some folks have viewed this ... well I got interested in coding for SOLARIS and took on the MacOSX port of Julian Schmidts excellent codebase for the SolarisArpEditor - I had only one bugfix on the baseline codebase that Julian wrote which is to say that Julian's work is just superb, it'...

I am curious as to what folks would like to see in SOLARIS software add-ons. I can see that there are various SOLARIS third-party add-ons, like arpeggiators and editors and other software (like preset handlers) that run on Mac or PC or perhaps iPad. But this is a new territory where there is a huge ...

FYI: The later versions of the sound were reproduced on KYMA CAPYBARA. http://www.symbolicsound.com/press-THX.html Not many people know what you have just pointed to and few even would believe it. THe thing about old systems is that they were all *offline* I myself used C-Sound and you could run an ...

Hey scope4live, Your sound examples are great and really, really welcome as a difference to all the sounds we've already heard. Maybe make a new thread on SOUND DESIGN EXAMPLES? Just a thought :) Please keep 'em coming! -G Exactamente...The Filters, realtime controls, and ability to mix Analog Oscil...

Hi, Well - I guess Urs will learn the hard way, as everyone is cursed to repeat other people's lessons instead of benefit from them. I can hear the difference between 44K and 96K, just using my KYMA Pacarana and also the Pro-Tools HD interface. The entire line of the KORG Legacy series uses direct c...

Hey - nice work :) Keep it up. Cheers - A. Hi everybody, just to announce that the movie soundtrack we did with my friend Xavier Jamaux for Motorway by Soi Cheang & produced by Johnnie To is just out. A lot of Solaris inside, but also analog gear (Memorymmog, OB8, GRP, Jupiter 8...). http://3.bp...

Hi Hein, I would appreciate if you could see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzvcHNwJOI I am not sure you will state with certainty the CS80 is thin sounding. Many CS80's are actually "broken" machines - the oscillators and sound path are messed up with degraded caps and re...

Any progress on the review and translation?

Hi, I have had good opportunities to make music and sound (mostly TV and Film) but I am taking the time now to to just work on a couple of musical projects. I looked at the interview with Jean-Michel Jarre and the reasons he cites for why he mixes and uses old synths (vintage synths) with the new VS...

Since I own an Andromeda I could do a compare. Of course, I also own a CS80, a Jomox SUNSYN, Rhodes Chrome, Prophet-T8 ... and, the thing is, they *all* sound great so I think that you might consider the "character" of the SOLARIS : I do not think it is a question of "good" or &q...

I voted SOLARIS ... mainly because I have a *lot* of gear and keyboards as well as having actually tried most of the others on the list. The Korg KRONOS is an excellent keyboard and I will likely buy one of those but I voted SOLARIS based on the demos I have heard, the architecture, and the sound de...

I will do some for a show I am working on once I get mine
I am in line.... just waiting along with everyone else.

I had been trying to get a SUNSYN for some time and I finally got one today, for a steep cost compared to their original selling price since, in Jurgens words, this product was a blood, sweat and tears effort. I think the SOLARIS is very much the same, to become an instant classic, but, I hope, that...