by serena-5 » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:01 pm
...I'll probably draw fire on this one, but let's not cut off our noses to spite our faces !! Of course, the Solaris is not meant to be a Rompler...or a analog wanna-be...or a workstation. But there are features of those that could be very useful in the same way the the D-50 used sampled snippets of sound, but was not a sample playback machine...in that case, the D-50 took elements of old, and combined them in extremely new and exciting ways. John demonstrates that the Solaris does a exceeding nice 4 oscillator string sound...a nice thing to do, but it's not just a virtual analog. He also demonstrated that it does FM very well, but it's not trying to be a DX-7. It also can use inported sampled waveforms, but it's not trying to be a rompler or sampler. If each of these technologies can be utilized in a new and exciting way in the Solaris, that's really cool. But even better is the fact that this synth is entirely software based, allowing for new technologies to take it into newer and different directions in the future. And being able to create (or recreate) the sounds of old is not a bad thing, although I know and appreciate that this is not the reason for being of this beautiful synth. One thing that I appreciate about my Virus TI is that the technology of the beast changes with every OS update, and just keeps getting better. With the Solaris, I think that we can expect all this and a lot more...and I believe that the bar will be raised with the Solaris for all synthesizers.
-S-5
...I'll probably draw fire on this one, but let's not cut off our noses to spite our faces !! Of course, the Solaris is not meant to be a Rompler...or a analog wanna-be...or a workstation. But there are features of those that could be very useful in the same way the the D-50 used sampled snippets of sound, but was not a sample playback machine...in that case, the D-50 took elements of old, and combined them in extremely new and exciting ways. John demonstrates that the Solaris does a exceeding nice 4 oscillator string sound...a nice thing to do, but it's not just a virtual analog. He also demonstrated that it does FM very well, but it's not trying to be a DX-7. It also can use inported sampled waveforms, but it's not trying to be a rompler or sampler. If each of these technologies can be utilized in a new and exciting way in the Solaris, that's really cool. But even better is the fact that this synth is entirely software based, allowing for new technologies to take it into newer and different directions in the future. And being able to create (or recreate) the sounds of old is not a bad thing, although I know and appreciate that this is not the reason for being of this beautiful synth. One thing that I appreciate about my Virus TI is that the technology of the beast changes with every OS update, and just keeps getting better. With the Solaris, I think that we can expect all this and a lot more...and I believe that the bar will be raised with the Solaris for all synthesizers.
-S-5