by John Bowen » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:18 pm
David,
There are a lot of little details to fully answer this question in detail, but you have already noted that the hardware is not currently slated to include the 'FM' oscillator (though it is on the list for eventual inclusion). Another difference is that you can use several pairs of the oscillator types, so with the plug-in you can actually have 10-12 oscillators (12 if you count the Modular window blocks). There's other details, such as lack of Quantization for the LFOs, some other control processors, and so on....and all of these things I would like to add to the released version. However, the big difference is twofold:
1) I am not a software coding guy...I just used the standard Scope DSP library of modules, and was able to add as much functionality as I wanted to the plug-in because the Scope SDK makes it so easy to do that.
2) The hardware Solaris has all new code, improved and optimised by the same person who did the original library 12 years ago, but now has that many more years of experience and knowledge under his belt, and also the mandate to make everything run optimally at 96kHz and to sound as good as we can make it.
IF I could be coding all this time, I would definitely be adding even more functions, like I usually do, but as it is, I have to hire the guys that do it, and they do it really well...and this costs money. Quite a bit, and so I have to agonize over what things get put in, and what things have to be left out. What I hope to have is a complete enough product that will provide many hours of creative inspiration, also knowing that like everything code-based, updates in the future are always possible.
Cheers,
John B,.
David,
There are a lot of little details to fully answer this question in detail, but you have already noted that the hardware is not currently slated to include the 'FM' oscillator (though it is on the list for eventual inclusion). Another difference is that you can use several pairs of the oscillator types, so with the plug-in you can actually have 10-12 oscillators (12 if you count the Modular window blocks). There's other details, such as lack of Quantization for the LFOs, some other control processors, and so on....and all of these things I would like to add to the released version. However, the big difference is twofold:
1) I am not a software coding guy...I just used the standard Scope DSP library of modules, and was able to add as much functionality as I wanted to the plug-in because the Scope SDK makes it so easy to do that.
2) The hardware Solaris has all new code, improved and optimised by the same person who did the original library 12 years ago, but now has that many more years of experience and knowledge under his belt, and also the mandate to make everything run optimally at 96kHz and to sound as good as we can make it.
IF I could be coding all this time, I would definitely be adding even more functions, like I usually do, but as it is, I have to hire the guys that do it, and they do it really well...and this costs money. Quite a bit, and so I have to agonize over what things get put in, and what things have to be left out. What I hope to have is a complete enough product that will provide many hours of creative inspiration, also knowing that like everything code-based, updates in the future are always possible.
Cheers,
John B,.