by John Bowen » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:15 am
OK, so...the very first person to put his money down for a Solaris order was Paul Kuchar. Paul had been a staunch supporter of my Scope plug-ins (Zarg Music products), and was familiar with the Solaris on that level, so I appreciate that his enthusiasm carried over to ordering the hardware unit immediately upon my taking deposits.
As well, Paul has created a number of presets for the Solaris (and other) plug-ins, and so I asked him if he would be interested in having one of the units we prepared for Messe, or just wait for the official production to get his unit. I was counting on him being OK with a Messe unit, as I wanted to see what kind of presets he would generate for it (Paul has always done some very interesting things with his presets!).
Needless to say, he was quite happy to receive one of the production units from Messe, even though it still has a beta version of the OS and so on...and he already has sent in a small number of presets. So technically, I could say we have shipped our first unit....although the OS is still not fully finished, nor the preset organization done, so this probably doesn't qualify in most circles.
The thing is, Paul wanted to blog about his experiences with it first-hand, so for him to do this, I thought I should explain the situation. Over to you, Paul....
OK, so...the very first person to put his money down for a Solaris order was Paul Kuchar. Paul had been a staunch supporter of my Scope plug-ins (Zarg Music products), and was familiar with the Solaris on that level, so I appreciate that his enthusiasm carried over to ordering the hardware unit immediately upon my taking deposits.
As well, Paul has created a number of presets for the Solaris (and other) plug-ins, and so I asked him if he would be interested in having one of the units we prepared for Messe, or just wait for the official production to get his unit. I was counting on him being OK with a Messe unit, as I wanted to see what kind of presets he would generate for it (Paul has always done some very interesting things with his presets!).
Needless to say, he was quite happy to receive one of the production units from Messe, even though it still has a beta version of the OS and so on...and he already has sent in a small number of presets. So technically, I could say we have shipped our first unit....although the OS is still not fully finished, nor the preset organization done, so this probably doesn't qualify in most circles.
The thing is, Paul wanted to blog about his experiences with it first-hand, so for him to do this, I thought I should explain the situation. Over to you, Paul....