John Bowen Synth Design

From SOS review 2012 on Solaris :

One of the things I loved on early Oberheims was the cycling of voices that were a little bit 'off', so I hope that we will see things like analogue randomness appearing on the Solaris.”

thx for the feedback concerning the lfo's, would be grateful if someone could give a bit more info on how to create the lush ring-mod sounds settings wise (or share a patch and some instructions) little bonus below : here is the SOS article fyi concerning emulating vintage sound : https://www.soundo...

I’d be very grateful if you could check this. Would even add it in the manual, it’s another great selling point :) Was reading an article in SOS the other day on how modern synths reset their lfo’s upon note release or note on. Is this something that can be switched off on the Solaris ? Example belo...

Gents, Anyone here with some experience on the AM and Ringmod ? Is it possible to get sounds out of it like the CS-80 ringmod ? What would be good settings for the AM to records some FX samples ? Been tinkering around a bit but can't get lush ringmod , it sound buzzy and distorted, I'm probably miss...

think the release date of 2.0 is now end of september ?

We could also outsource the editor part to : https://www.soundtower.com/

Hello John, Just made a donation to Jim Hewes. He did a fantastic invaluable job indeed. Obviously the above news is great news and personally I will chip in when you need me too, 200 or higher would not be an issue for me or probably most of us ( I mean we all own the Lamborghini of synths here). I...

oh my and it's not even christmas... great news !

A vst plugin editor would be awesome !

have we advanced on the slop and analog randomness ?

I got X-MOD on my JP-8000, sounds extremely digitally agressive when I play it. But might investigate again to see if I can get JP-6 results but I doubt it :p

thx John !

If I'm not mistaken someone wrote a piece of soft that shows the modularity & routing of the solaris visually. sadly enough I can't find the link anymore. it does not show whats going in your patch but it makes it easier to reverse engineer certain things.

have you guys seen the AFX (aphex twin mode) that was released on the novation bass station ? What do you guys make of that ? It might have less use on a big poly monster like the solaris. But it opens up creativity : "AFX Mode is the realisation of James’ out-there concept. Put simply, it lets...

Ah but the Solaris is not like a lot of systems out there . It would be nice to have both options indeed. Quick save makes a lot of sense on a machine that is made for sound design. Preventing replacement of the store button in the future too imho.