John Bowen Synth Design

Well written indeed. One thing in particular really caught my eye though. 6) I put it in Omni mode and play it from a Roli Seaboard with full Poly-AT control. This is the kind of expression that synths were made for. Just gorgeous. Please tell me more about this. I am very close to pulling the trigg...

Always late to the party but a very happy birthday from me as well! (If you are in PST, I guess that this posting will make it before midnight. )

synth80s wrote:Well thank you very much. John knows how much I appreciate the Solaris. I had a great chance to chat with him at NAMM this year.

You are most welcome! I should have realised that you would be here as well...

It is a bit rough to describe the Solaris as "a prototype"; that stage would have been while it was being developed on the Scope platform.

I am sorry if this is old hat; I tried to search the forum but since that came up with nil I took the plunge and posted this. Here is a very nice review from a chap on Gearslutz that is well worth reading. Not only is it well written and well researched, is is also very concise and to the point. Sin...

Hello out there... i`m waiting for my Solaris :-) so i read these posts...it may be a dumb question but will it be / is it possible to drop the patch-data via usb (since i don`t have midi-connection)?...and i was thinking that it would be nice to collect (and share) screenshots of the presets that ...

I decided to make the source available. You can find it at: https://bitbucket.org/JimHewes/solarium Great news! I have started on the port to Mac but ran into problems with the compiler. If someone else is on Mac and have Xcode I'd be more than happy to get some help as my C++ fu is rather weak. K

Oh, one feature request: the ability to read a preset from file, rather than from MIDI, please. Would make life so much easier for me, running the program in a virtual environment you see...

Lovely, and a bit of a bummer… This is exactly what I have been wishing for - a way to visualize a patch! I have no need for an editor at this stage, but a way to break down a patch and see how it works. Excellent way to learn! However, I am a Mac only person so I will have to try to find a way to r...

I thought we were going to start receiving some updated software at this point. It has been far far too long and something absolutely should be done about this. There is talk of build 5 and a custom Solaris with a larger keyboard. I consider these totally unrelated issues; one is a matter of "...

An editor would be nice but I have, in all honesty, little need for an editor that is connected to the Solaris. What I had envisioned (and what would fit my bill nicely) was something to tweak the preset files on the CF card. Really, what would suffice for me would be a way to visualise a patch, not...

OpenSource is not a silver bullet - it only works when there is enough momentum and general interest. Having just a few hundred users, out of which only a handful are programmers, would make the whole thing moot. I forgot the most serious argument against OpenSource here: this is a DSP solution, no...

OpenSource is not a silver bullet - it only works when there is enough momentum and general interest. Having just a few hundred users, out of which only a handful are programmers, would make the whole thing moot. I like the idea of putting some money into this thing but how much? Well, that is in th...

I have thought about the same thing so, yes, I am definitely interested.

I was wondering how you're getting on with the Accelerator? - how's the oscillators and filters in comparison to the Solaris? Any issues or major features you've encountered? I like the sound; it is more digital than the Solaris and, as I pointed out above, complements the Solaris well. I have yet ...