John Bowen Synth Design

I think perhaps the Solaris should drop NRPN and use SysEx instead. That way the larger values can be represented. This is what the Korg Kronos does. When you change individual parameters on the Kronos it sends out a four-byte value (so the whole message is 14 bytes). Then the Solaris could define a...

Thanks! I will do some more listening.

amongstmyselves wrote:Certainly is a useful utility. It'll be much better once the sample bug is fix of course.

Steve

Just heard your track "Star" on Stillstream radio. Cool.

Download is here. Windows only, sorry.

The USB connection is faster than MIDI and it does work. But I’ve found the connection to be a bit flakey sometimes. So I tend to use MIDI. Yes, it’s kind of slow because it’s transferring around a thousand parameters one at a time. It would be faster with a bulk dump that economized on parameter si...

Last summer I worked on this program for managing sample pool files called Solsa. But I put it on the back burner because at the time I couldn’t seem to get samples to work right for me on the Solaris. Anyway, I thought I would throw the source code out there since I had already done that with Solar...

It should be fixed now. Please download it again and try.
It was just a case of the program not working if the configuration file was missing, which is the case the first time you run it!

I've updated it so you can now load from a preset file. (But no saving to a file yet.) Btw, I was able to compile with the Clang compiler in Visual Studio. But that uses the VS backend so it doesn’t prove that the full build works on Mac. I don’t mean to spam this part of the forum with too much tal...

I decided to make the source available. You can find it at: https://bitbucket.org/JimHewes/solarium I know Git and GitHub are very popular. But I started using Mercurial years ago because it supported all platforms more equally (particularly good for Windows users) and it's pretty easy to use. So th...

sam wrote:AFAIK the free version of JUCE is GPL only, i.e. you also need to release any code under the GPL too. http://www.juce.com/get-juce

I think you are right and I think I’ve misunderstood the license. I’m going to have to remove it, at least for the time being. I’m very sorry about that.

It’s not even at the stage to commit to anything. But I at least know that taking money for it would require a commercial license for the JUCE library and that’s a losing proposition.

What language did you do this in? Do you think it would be feasible to port it to Mac? Since you explicitly state that you do not have a Mac the question is probably moot but it had to be asked... :D It's written in C++ and uses the JUCE cross-platform GUI library so it should port to Mac. I suppos...

I thought I would make this program available because people might at least have some fun with it as it is. Anyway, it’s free so you have nothing to lose. I named it Solarium (because I’ve never been that great at thinking up names for applications :) ). You should be able to download it here: Solar...

Just a few extra notes I had related to the NRPN list: Master0PitchWheelRange1 – 5: Pitch range UP. None0 – 8: Mod Wheel on/off None0 – 9: Mod Wheel max LFO1Frequency0 – 138: This is called “Rate” on the Solaris UI. Osc1ModCMix1 – 268: Control Strength. Same for all other instances of “CMix” Osc1Mod...

I’ve spent some time with the NRPN and SysEx the past six months or so. There are lots of issues there. I just didn’t think there was a need to list them because I figured Holger would find them anyway. But since it came up, I can add some info. The NRPN values that the Solaris sends out don’t corre...