John Bowen Synth Design

Excellent. I figured I had the mixers backwards there. So it's more like MIXER->FILTER->AMP. Then we distinguish FX by saying "INSERTFX" as compared to GLOBALFX. So I would add MASTER VOL, OVERDRIVE, and GLOBALFX to the end of the picture. Nice to hear about the additional flexibility on t...

1. Starting at the left side, Sound Sources: 4 Oscillators, Vector, Rotor, AM, Ext, Noise 2. Then 4 Level Mixers. Each mixer has 4 inputs, so input total = 16. 3. Then 4 Filters. Inputs to those can be any of: OSC, Filters, Mixers 4. Then 4 Amps. Each filter has an AMP and PAN Setting. [bypass AMP/P...

General response: what we have now is a near approximation of at least 1. Oberheim Matrix 2. Moog MiniMoog 3. SCI Prophet 5 4. SCI Prophet VS 5. PPG Wave 6. Yamaha DX7 FM 7. Rotors 8. AM 9. Samples Let's not get too greedy. :wink: I am fairly interested in some other types of Synthesis as well. But ...

I was thinking about that as well. What I have sort of come up with is that it seems like it is standard layout, in a general sense. VCO -> VCF -> VCA. Then ENV and LFO's. But I am still confused a bit by when/where the mixer sits in the flowchart. The one note I would add, the thing that might thro...

This is an update for the Delamar.tv videos. There are 2 parts here to view:

http://www.delamar.de/musikmessevideos/ ... izer-7898/

The page is in German, but most of the video is in English...
-john b.

My little firewire interface will do 96KHz/24-bit either in or out on SPDIF. So Solaris running at 96KHz/24-bit is great with me.

+1 on sound quality. There are a lot of awful sounding vst's and other stuff. Good sound is critical.

+1 on predictable DSP allocation.

I think the decision logic there is really good. Just wanted to offer a positive agreement on that.

Was thinking it would be cool to take a whole bunch of Hammond samples, trim to 1-each, and put them into one of the wavetables... then maybe travel that table with the ribbon. Or then take those, assign them to 4 WT osc's, Vector mix those, and ribbon at the same time...

Yes?

One followup related to the mixing observations...

Suppose I have: Osc1,Osc2,Osc3,Osc4 going to Mixer1.

Can I also still use the Rotors and Vectors as Sources, etc. So for example, can I have Rotor1 as Input1 to Mixer2, and Vector1 as Input2 to Mixer2 and so on?

I'm assuming the answer is yes...

OK. I think I see what the "Mixer" section is all about now. I think the initial confusion was that most synths don't have this. Let me see if I can describe this clearly... ;-/ The mixer section is a pre-filter mixer for each filter. What this does is let you send more than 1 oscillator t...

Yeah, I was just looking at your thread and those pics. Looks like it turned out *AWESOME*. Better than I expected. The layout for the osc/mixers/fx/lfos... excellent. The connectivity on the back is incredible. And the extra controllers onboard, having the joystick, ribbon, and wheels. What can I s...

Got to hear David Wessels talk (and perform) today. http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/david_wessel It reminded me again why I ordered a Solaris. It's that thing where... if you are just sitting in front of a computer screen, you can get pulled out of the process of performing. Or might spend too much...

Hey Elie. Welcome. Not sure if it was mentioned... but it looks like "Prophet VS" waveshapes will be on Solaris also. So with those, and the Rotors, my guess is you could do some ProphetVS-like stuff on it. Always liked the Vectron in the Creamware scope. And I'm guessing you could get clo...

I voted in favor of the LuxPad as well. Seems like at a minimum we would get 1000-points-per-inch resolution. And if we are lucky, we would get some macro's, or a couple of modes out of the thing. One thing to note: this thing might also produce pressure values. So we might get fine x/y + coarse pre...

Is the plugin going to be available for the Xite-1 ?

I guess the obvious followup question is: if I have v4.X, will I be able to upgrade from my old PulsarII to the new Xite-1, or will I be starting from scratch to get Solaris or QWave into the Xite-1 box?

[ Just curious... ]