John Bowen Synth Design

Finally got my Solaris on Friday; only gone through some of it - bank 3 sounds amazing!!

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A long strange trip from concept to reality, but great job John.

The velvet is pretty darn snazzy, though. Nice job on that one! Love the blue piping. :-) Probably laying the duck over the keyboard, however, would be bad idea ... they tend to bite, and I have seen many keyboards end up for sale second hand with various "mallardies" from bill biting on t...

I had a CompuCover in the past, they're OK but nowhere near the quality of the one I mention above. Saying the CompuCover models are as good as the one I recommended is akin to saying the Roland Gaia is just as good as the Solaris. The former is a good performer for the money, but definitely not in...

Hopefully those of us waiting on our Solaris from the Xmas "shipping before January" emails, then NAMM delay, then German vacation, then no power supply, etc., will see ours shipping out before Messe? Three more months of waiting has been painful!!!!

Hey all ... another option for custom covers, can be found at CompuCover, who I've been recommending to people for 20+ years now - for less than about $25 you can get custom fit in black nylon, blue nylon, anti static frosted vinyl to show off in studio, etc; see: http://musicindustrynewswire.com/20...

Woooooooooooooo!

Heard from JB the other day, so those in the next batch have their update on shipping as "any day now" for those of us who were supposed to get theirs at new year's before the sonic core 2 month holiday ...

Hi, galaxiesmerge yes... all of us who believed enough to pre-order are definitely a special bunch, and in a great position to help spread the word about the SOLARIS and get folks interested in the second production run at some point. I feel a special kinship to this project, as I was the "firs...

OH... just noticed that the CTRL can be used to integrate from within DAW, sort of like what MidiQuest was "trying" to do ... that would be cool. Being able to affect something from within Logic would be neat; although a simple editor for that "could" be built from within Logic o...

Interesting ... looks cool, except for the bug reports on MaC OS, and it's the part time effort of one guy. But very neat... I think the brave at heart might look at more mature products like the Open Labs Music OS 3, or perhaps even better Smithson-Martin Emulator, both of which can run on a comput...

Hello all... first of two reviews of the SOLARIS on our magazine site, this one by David K., who already has his unit (obviously), and there will be additional review by me once I get mine in the "pending" production batch for Feb. 2012. SEE: http://musicindustrynewswire.com/2012/01/31/min...

Hi, John thanks for feedback. The Evo is pretty cool, but considering it's almost as much as the Solaris, I can't see that being something on my buy list this year. For half the asking price, I'd look at it, but almost $4K with shipping to US (ouch!). Still, my custom Haken wasn't cheap either, fran...

Howdy... to add in my four cents. My main wish list for the future would be 1) CS-80 emulation, as that is my #1 "want" as far as being able to mix different tones with the rev1 Solaris; I agree, the Arturia is good but disappointing when you compare it to some of the real world CS-80 stuf...

Just got the "it's coming soon" email from John .. woo hooo!!!!! Can't wait. My iPhone 4s will be snapping away once it's here!!!

I think I am #0043 .... so hopefully I'll see the Solaris by my 50th birthday, which is Jan. 12, 2012.

I am super pleased to report that I received my white Solaris today! Bought it on December 10, 2007 and here it is finally on my doorstep October 25, 2011...and you know what? The wait was worth it! epoxy2600 ... thank you thank you for sharing. I think my unit will look identical to yours, and thi...