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by John Bowen
Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:56 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: User Interface
Replies: 33
Views: 51264

One of the other things is, there is no hysteresis on the knobs at the moment, so just a little bump and you get a knob change. This is yet to be tweaked, but it's an important issue, obviously.

john b.
by John Bowen
Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:54 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Suggestion re the two-line displays
Replies: 16
Views: 24502

Do you mean, considering them for preset making? I'd love that, but seeing their schedules here, I highly doubt they would have time for such things!

-john b.
by John Bowen
Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:27 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Suggestion re the two-line displays
Replies: 16
Views: 24502

How about a blinking asterisk placed to the front of the line? Or a blinking arrow? It's easy to implement, it doesn't take much space, and it istn't distracting (as opposed to the whole line blinking). Just some suggestions.Yannis We discussed the blinking idea before, and I brought it up again wi...
by John Bowen
Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:15 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Simple Audio Examples
Replies: 81
Views: 96941

Panning Modulation at audio rates - http://www.johnbowen.com/WavDemos/Solaris_PanMod.wav. This sound example reminded me, among others, how bad quantized oscillators sound when swept either up or down :( I am not asking for the smoothest zip here (the A6 doesn't provide for it either) but maybe som...
by John Bowen
Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:05 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: User Interface
Replies: 33
Views: 51264

The knobs beneath the graphic display are 5 x 5. They are too close together in the prototype, and we plan to adjust that. I did think about the "wavy" pattern idea, but I think these will work fine once they have a bit more spacing.

cheers,
john b.
by John Bowen
Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:11 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: We'd like some video from NAMM
Replies: 7
Views: 13193

NAMM report

It was great! We had a lot of enthusiastic and interested persons there...if you could find our booth! Unfortunately, NAMM decided that there were no spaces for me, and put me on a waiting list, and then alerted me on December 7th that there was an available room where a few others and myself could ...
by John Bowen
Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:08 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Suggestion re the two-line displays
Replies: 16
Views: 24502

Cornutt, Thanks for the suggestions! The inverse video text idea has been mentioned several times now, and actually we had toyed with it last year, as well as a couple of the other suggestions. BOLD, or blinking, or [brackets], etc. I'll be back in Germany soon, working on the production prototype, ...
by John Bowen
Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:03 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: What type of SHARC processors under the SOLARIS
Replies: 14
Views: 20058

Sorry, I can't tell you for sure at this point, as I think we are changing the part.

-john b.
by John Bowen
Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:12 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

I am worried about the access to a sequencer on the synth. In the scope plugin I can program with a mouse. How shall that work smoothly in Solaris HW without 8 or 16 encoders/buttons. Sorry I have seen the awkward programming in Andromeda. Yeah, this worries me as well, which is one of the reasons ...
by John Bowen
Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:52 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

OOPS...last question. Can the output of each row be run independently through a lag processor? :-) Each step has a choice of 2 'glide' or pitch bend type settings, but there are no lag processors in the software to separately smooth out the outputs....at least, not yet! (can be added to v5 easily.)...
by John Bowen
Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:49 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

Hey John,...When you say that each envelope can trigger from the keyboard or one of the rows, does each row have a trigger pattern associated with it or is it just per step? Does each row run on it's own clock division? Finally can you set the sequence triggers to be per step or on the loop start b...
by John Bowen
Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:06 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

I would probably do the same thing as I did in the plug-in, which is that each envelope can be assigned to trigger from either the keyboard or one of the sequence rows (there are 3 in the plug-in, and probably will be 4 rows in the keyboard).

John b.
by John Bowen
Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:56 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

Well, this is more or less how the sequencer on the Solaris plug-in works. You have all the modulation destinations which can select one of 3 rows of control data, the limit being that Row 1 is set for tuning, so it adjusts in semitones, while the other 2 rows are full range. And again, this can be ...
by John Bowen
Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:27 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

stardust wrote:No need. Though Karma like pattern apeggio/sequencer would be nice.
Ah, but to have the Karma algorithms requires licensing them from Stephen Kay ($$$)....and also, I'm not sure if Korg's arrangement is exclusive for keyboard products.

-john b.
by John Bowen
Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:39 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?
Replies: 48
Views: 59750

Does Solaris really need a step sequencer?

I'm wondering now about this - and I'd like to hear from you!

-john b.