John Bowen Synth Design

You can read about Scala here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/#related-links

-john b.

And SonicCore will not be responsible for organizing the beta testing, I will.

-john b.

Hi Shayne, Hmmm, this is the first time anyone has commented on this! I can certainly add interpolation to the PWM section, but I've never heard anyone saying it sounded 'bad' in the plug-in. Are you talking about just the front panel knobs? Any control signals normally shouldn't be a problem. cheer...

Thanks Peter,

Let's see what happens with the Editor software Holger writes; maybe we can do the basic work in-house, but I definitely appreciate your offer to help.

regards,
john b.

The hardware Solaris has the equivalent of approximately 6 Scope boards (the 14 DSP cards), so 6 x 14 = 84 Scope generation DSPs - but remember, you would have to be running your Scope Project at 96 kHz as well...

regards,
john b.

Those of you familiar with the plug-in know that sample playback was not a major feature of this synth! It is also not a main focus of the hardware, as there are plenty of other products on the market that can handle all the details of sample mapping and key range, velocity switching, etc. On-board ...

Would support of the Scala file format be sufficient?

john b.

I know this is a bit premature and it's not really a priority feature, but with all those knobs and displays, this synth would make an awesome control surface for software synths and plugins. Any plans on supporting something like the Mackie Control modes to call up and handle softsynth/plugin para...

"...Perhaps there could be a COPY function so say you could copy osc 1&2 of one patch and apply it to osc 3&4 of the current patch?" My personal recommendation would be to add the copy and paste functions for various sections in the software editor... Not on the hardware itself. T...

Depends on sample memory. Solaris is not meant to be a "rompler" type instrument, though.

-john b.

John: ...The "tunable feedback" idea was taken from the DSI polyevolver. It sounds like you are already working on it... I haven't actually spent any time with the Evolver, so I'm not sure what exactly is going on there. I'll take a look at the manual, or try to find one around here to ch...

Going on the Multi-timbre theme. Assuming there is adequate polyphony (Which I hope for a $3k+ Synth) will we be able to layer? Will there be "Combis"? I'm not planning on providing "combis" at first, since you can get fairly sophisticated layering just by using the 4 mixer/filt...

The Sequencer output on the plug-in comes as 3 discreet control paths, and these are listed in the modulation source list everywhere, so if we follow a similar model for the hardware (but 4 instead of 3), it's easy to have the sequencer control all of the things you mentioned.

-john b.

Hi Pighood, The sample RAM available won't be for long sample files - maybe more like 1 or 2 seconds for each osc, I'm not sure yet. But yes, you will be able to frequency modulate them, as they will be directly available to each DSP chip. regards, john b. p.s. no, I did not get any email regarding ...

Mr. Black wrote:I'm hoping it's like Spectrasonics Atmosphere on steriod's, if so then i've already bought one.

Isn't everything by Spectrasonics based on large sample playback files?

-jb