John Bowen Synth Design

Regarding the Tascam SubD, I agree, it is more or less an efficient high end gear standard solution especially for mixing or audio cards. My point is mainly to avoid such addition because I do not see the gain for everybody on that point. And as already told I would prefer John to keep most of the h...

I wouldn't save on TRS I/O as they are pretty much standard direct connection. The SubD stuff is cheaper (but you also need to choose a high quality one as it has to transport audio, not data, so not as cheap as computer stuff, a the cable would also need to be a good one and maybe less easy to find...

I supposed the Solaris mainboard fits into one 19' rack. Maybe John could just confirm this. Then, the Solaris rack design would be "limited" to mechanical hardware and a bit of software to not look for internal control elements with no electronic hardware redesign. I also assume the IO el...

Apart from the power switch and maybe the compact flash header (in case it is not on the main board), I wouldn't modify the design too much to share the same hardware, not only to save on design cost, but also to keep the embedded software common to both design. A desktop model would also make sense...

This how I would see such a blind unit: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8313/7936363020_5f682c363f_z.jpg Maybe the only modification necessary would be to bring the power switch on the front of the unit. As everything is CC mapped, one could just remote control the unit either from a PC or maybe iPAD ...

John Bowen wrote:Hmmm, yes, that’s a bit surprising actually.

jb

You mean disappointing ...

Wouldn't it be possible to just output data through SPDIF out of "SOLARIS expander" to the SPDIF in of the main Solaris Keyboard ?
And provide a MIDI local control off mode to allow edition of the "Solaris expander" by using the Solaris keyboard user interface ...

Using the same 6 DSP board that is already used for the SOLARIS to build up a SOLARIS expander would probably make more sense than using an xite-1(D) which is a slightly different platform as you still could use it without the help of a PC. But getting this kind of SOLARIS expander in such a 1U or 2...

Any other feedback from the Musikmesse last day, John ?
Or just regarding second run orders ?

Still just happy to have had the opportunity to meet you and your synths.
Now I have to figure out how I could find money to buy one Solaris

Regarding the Physis piano, here is a demo from the Musikmesse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... GCzvwFbWxk

Would have preferred it to provide a mix model mode to create new instruments ...

Some pictures from the MusikMesse available here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76472424@N ... 299815616/

Yep, it was a wonderfull experience to try the Solaris for real. Thanks a lot for your time and effort John. And sound editing is just straightforward although the synth possibilities are just frightenning. As the only thing I could do up to now was reading the manual once, it was just so easy to ge...

Well, this would be hard for me as I do not really like piano sounds. So I wouldn't be fair on that one ...

I do not think the vacation do have something to do with the delay.

If some things have to be rebuild, it just takes time to go through the whole building process ...

I will try to bring my old digital camera, so probably pictures but I wouldn't be able to make videos ...