Comments on: John Bowen’s Solaris Mega-Synth Available For Order

By: john bowen

john bowen — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:05:50 +0000

Sorry I’m ‘late to the party’ here….

Procyon,
Ouch!!!

Two of the first 4 audio things I posted didn’t even use filters (the AM and the Panning Mod). The other have resonance by request – people asking for ‘high res filter sweeps’….so I will plead ‘guilty’ to those.
Of the other examples, the ‘Weird Rotor’ things do not have much res, but the Tube Filter does, of course (you can check them all here:
http://www.johnbowen.com/solaris.html). But “cheesy, grating, and 70s sounding”!? (Well, the Prophet 5 PolyMod sound is from the late 70s, admittedly)….cheesy could be my playing style – and there’s no big production here, just playing the synth in realtime. I’m not a sequencer user, so I don’t have any typical ’song demos’ done yet, but Stephen at redmartian.com did make a quick multitracked example here: http://redmartian.com/solaris/solaris1.mp3 .

Hopefully there will be more posted after January, once the initial users have had their units.

john b.

By: dingebre

dingebre — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:33:23 +0000

Got mine ordered…

Thanks John!

David

By: Tim Davila

Tim Davila — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:27:01 +0000

i agree it must be a lot more impressive than its demos….and yeah anytime good demos will be posted, its a pre-release so a lot of stuff will shows up yet …programming in one of this must be wicked

By: synthhead

synthhead — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:20:02 +0000

Tim – thanks for the feedback.

I suspect that Bowen’s synth is a lot more impressive than the demos suggest.

Some guys, like Bowen, are great synth designers, and others are great at making cool demos. Maybe Bowen can hook up with a great sound designer for some future audio demos.

By: Tim Davila

Tim Davila — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:00:27 +0000

evolution creativity use of new/better hardwares and processing its the key to make better products and sometimes the released product isnt like we think it will be in the first place but they tried hard …

but other companies a lot of time don’t think in user and in make better products they think in make money,whit what they came up is in fact worst than the ancestor product a lot of times…

Solaris seems to be doing it right.. inovating using new resources, inteligence…with OS updates, new algorithms, floating point processor a lot of new interesting stuff…and of course a lot of horse power on its specifications. in the demos by John its show some pretty basic examples of what it can do…just make some search he will be posting more complex demos any day.

By: Tim Davila

Tim Davila — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:41:39 +0000

wow.. this must be the dream-synth.
im speachless… lets see what this can do in the hystory of synths, on future music composing and in hardware development, now other companies will have to level their standarts,will be amazing companys killing each other to see who will make the best synth with 4 osc, 4 lfos, 6 fx independent channels, if they want to play thats the way….
just speachless looking foward to work whit one of these!!

By: synthhead

synthhead — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:08 +0000

Procyon – seems like most of the times, companies can’t demo their own gear that well.

By: Procyon

Procyon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:22:15 +0000

I’m sure it’ll sound incredible, but I’d love to hear at least some audio demos that don’t involve a whole f*ckload of resonance! Or just something a bit wider and warmer sounding. Everything there was just very cheesy, grating and 70s sounding.