Sonic-Core has announced that starting later this month, they will publish The John Bowen Chronicles, with new installments every few weeks, leading up to the release of the SOLARIS synthesizer.
John Bowen was involved in the development of many legends in synthesizer history - the Prophet 5, the Prophet VS and the Prophet T-8 by Sequential Circuits, [...]

Former Sequential Circuits designer John Bowen has announced that that the first production of his Solaris mega-synth is now planned for late September 2008, with delivery shortly thereafter. Pre-orders for the second series of production are available now, with a $1000/800 EUR deposit, and the $3599/2400 EUR final price.
Bowen is best known for his work [...]

John Bowen Synth Design has introduced the Solaris keyboard synthesizer.
Bowen is best known for his work on pioneering keyboard synthesizers at Sequential Circuits, but he’s also been very active creating software synths.
“While I certainly enjoyed many good years at Sequential Circuits, working as an independent plug-in developer for the Scope platform over the last 7 [...]