John Bowen Synth Design

My 'white' Solaris is an amazing device, best Synth I have ever owned and I am a analogue purist, so this has converted me.

However, I'd like to find out if I'm the only one experiencing these little pops and audible impurities, very subtle, but very noticeable (on default patches - i havent had much time to make my own yet), that disappear when you hit the FX bypass.

I'll post some patch numbers, that are affected by what sounds like slight distortion or overloaded signals, plus slightly superstitious of me, but my unit number is 113. I'm terrified of finding out I have a faulty FX bus or something relative.

Something like this? :

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=16204

Thanks Zahush, I wish I could read that link you posted, but it says I am not authorized to view it..

Another problem I have (might be totally unrelated) is my Solaris has frozen during "booting..." at the Waldorf screen, it's happened 3 times, 1st time out of the box, 2nd time a few weeks ago, and then just this morning... I feel like it's slipping into darkness

But, to add to the initial impurity claim, it seems more noticeable via the SPDIF out, on patch 01 - "JB P5 PolyFM", I am getting a piece of white noise, seems to be there perfectly at a point where the oscillation is riding through the sinewave. I realise it may be an incompatibility between the digital interfaces, which I am willing to accept, but I also can hear this via the phones jack and outputs 1&2.

If you're an owner - than you should get authorization to get in the owners zone.
Anyway, here are the links to some soundcloud clips of me playing simple chords on the Solaris, and you hear "crackles". Is this similar to what you have?

https://soundcloud.com/#zahush76/solaris-pad-crackles

https://soundcloud.com/#zahush76/solaris-brass-crackles

Hi Zahush,

Yep, that's very similar to what I'm experiencing, although yours seems to make your sounds 'jump' like a stylus on a record, whereas my impurities seem to be imbedded or layered on to the sound, not causing a skip..

And yes, I have authorization now, John is very tentative, he read my post got in contact with me and gave me access, so I have read your thread.

Fingers crossed there's not too much pain / downtime on the road to recovery with this issue.

Are you guys using the analog or SPDIF outputs?

marzzz wrote:Are you guys using the analog or SPDIF outputs?

As i've mentioned before - i get these crackles wether i use the analog outputs, digital outputs, or while listening to Solaris directly thru my headphones thru the headphone output.
So it sounds like that on all outs, and wether it's going thru my user interface into cubase - or directly to the headphones without even passing thru any daw or interfac.

Hello,

As a prospective buyer, this problem is rather worrying ... Could you give us an update, was the problem fixed ? Was it a faulty Solaris ?

Thanks
Christophe

I think that problem occurred with exactly one Solaris, which had been subjected to rough shipping.

Oh ok, thanks marzzz.

Christophe