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by John Bowen
Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Verson 2.1 OS Released!
Replies: 0
Views: 16019

Verson 2.1 OS Released!

After almost a year of thinking about how best to change the Solaris sequencer functions, Jim Hewes (minorguy) has completely reworked the sequencer code and produced what I think is a very exciting new way to create and manipulate patterns. He took in many suggestions from myself and others (specia...
by John Bowen
Thu Jul 06, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: New board Coming
Replies: 4
Views: 9282

Re: New board Coming

Hello Solaris Owners, We are in the final stages of developing the new (retrofittable) Rev 2 motherboard! I am now taking orders for the Rev 2 upgrade and have contacted everyone on my Solaris Owners’ List, however, if you did not receive this, please contact me directly at info@johnbowen.com if you...
by John Bowen
Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:26 am
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Ratcheting - do you use it?
Replies: 1
Views: 5746

Ratcheting - do you use it?

Following up on the previous topic about ratcheting - there’s some questions as to how best to implement it, so I’d like to know if you use this, what you would like to have in terms of settings for it. We currently have an overall random ratcheting probability percent, plus the ability to set a ste...
by John Bowen
Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: Solaris keyboard music/examples
Topic: Solaris Featured in Latest Days Before Tomorrow Band Video (DB4T)
Replies: 1
Views: 9749

Re: Solaris Featured in Latest Days Before Tomorrow Band Video (DB4T)

Thanks for posting! Great to see the Solaris in use.

John
by John Bowen
Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:35 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: More about the new Sequencer functions
Replies: 2
Views: 9756

More about the new Sequencer functions

Here’s a 14 min video that goes into more detail about the forthcoming 2.1 OS Sequencer functions:
https://youtu.be/6pOpO1ai5wY
by John Bowen
Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Solaris Sequencer and Arpeggiator Update!
Replies: 5
Views: 12824

Re: Solaris Sequencer and Arpeggiator Update!

Excellent! "record (the keyboard)" alone would be a much valuable addition. Do you mean a real-time recording of whatever you play? I know we aren’t set up for that at the moment. I'm not sure what resources that would require. With the new sequencer, you do load the notes by playing the ...
by John Bowen
Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:25 am
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Solaris Sequencer and Arpeggiator Update!
Replies: 5
Views: 12824

Solaris Sequencer and Arpeggiator Update!

For a long time I’ve had requests to update the sequencer functions of the Solaris, and it’s been on the list once we got the 4-part multi-timbre v2.x OS done. Jim has been hard at work implementing a number of new features in a major overhaul of the Solaris sequencer and arpeggiator code, and we ar...
by John Bowen
Tue Jan 17, 2023 11:10 am
Forum: User Feature Requests
Topic: Get a piano patch sound
Replies: 1
Views: 2990

Re: Get a piano patch sound

You can construct a very basic piano sound from 4 samples mapped across the keyboard. First we have to find the best samples for that, which can sound decent being stretched across the keyboard. Usually the lower samples are longer and higher ones shorter, of course. I will see if I can put together...
by John Bowen
Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:47 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Solaris won't stay in tune
Replies: 5
Views: 8369

Re: Solaris won't stay in tune

Make sure the Tuning in the System page is at zero. If that is correct, then possibly an analog control somehow got reset? You can find the Selftest Menu by pressing 1-3-8 together. From there you can find a calibration for the wheels, ribbon, and joystick (all of which could be offsetting pitch). U...
by John Bowen
Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: Off Topic Lounge
Topic: 100th post and some news from Aodyo
Replies: 2
Views: 2241

Re: 100th post and some news from Aodyo

Ah, you are involved with that one? It looks quite interesting. Is it all built on the Mutable Instruments modules’ code? I had some communication with her about using such things for the Solaris, but the code conversion to SHARC DSPs seemed to be too problematic.
by John Bowen
Mon Oct 24, 2022 11:58 pm
Forum: User Feature Requests
Topic: Solaris as a (basic) sampler?
Replies: 2
Views: 3177

Re: Solaris as a (basic) sampler?

I will have to investigate what it would take to add a basic sampling function to the Solaris. Never say never!
by John Bowen
Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:16 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Sample pools in OS 2.x
Replies: 10
Views: 6755

Re: Sample pools in OS 2.x

Thanks for the helpful response. A few comments....I don't understand why the engineer that coded the audio file handling couldn't just take the wav files and strip the metadata out in the code and then play it. It is certainly straightforward and there are numerous public domain code resources (au...
by John Bowen
Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:14 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Sample pools in OS 2.x
Replies: 10
Views: 6755

Re: Sample pools in OS 2.x

Oh, and last thing is to be able to handle stereo sample files. Kluging up a solution with panning multiple oscillators is a bit odd and inconvenient not to mention, as you have, the phasing issues that might arise. I don’t see how it can be done without using 2 voices, since the Solaris structure ...
by John Bowen
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:29 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Sample pools in OS 2.x
Replies: 10
Views: 6755

Re: Sample pools in OS 2.x

So, last question first - what I learned about playing back .wav files - the Solaris can play them back already, but the way the code was done plays back all the data in the file, which includes the metadata tag. For a few samples, I could hear a tiny ‘click’, and when I asked the coding engineer at...
by John Bowen
Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:21 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Sample pools in OS 2.x
Replies: 10
Views: 6755

Re: Sample pools in OS 2.x

Another thing to know - as I stated above, you can freely edit the SamplePool text file using your computer (and a CF card reader, of course). You can change the low and high key values right there in the text file, so if you’d like a sample to be ‘key windowed’, just set the low and high values in ...