John Bowen (one of the original Sequential Circuits guys and co-designer of the Prophet 5) has teamed up with SonicCore (one of the restructured CreamWare companies) to produce a hardware version of the uber-synth Solaris which has been avaiable for the Scope platform for a while. It is semi-modular and i think will probably sound bloody marvellous if the software version is anything to go by and will be very, very flexible.
Pics and info:
http://www.johnbowen.com/images/closeups/IMG_4003.jpg
http://www.johnbowen.com/images/closeups/IMG_4005.jpg
http://www.johnbowen.com/images/closeups/IMG_4006.jpg
http://www.johnbowen.com/images/closeups/IMG_4013.jpg
http://www.johnbowen.com/
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/index.html (scroll down a bit)
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21898
New Solaris hardware synth from synth guru John Bowen
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- KVRAF
- 2317 posts since 11 Mar, 2003
Last edited by Mr Arkadin on Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRAF
- 37508 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Cool - he's been talking about this for ages 
I already have the software synth but it eats DSP for breakfast.
I already have the software synth but it eats DSP for breakfast.-
- KVRian
- 1144 posts since 26 Sep, 2005 from Germany
thats why I did not buy it yet...it eats DSP for breakfast.
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- KVRAF
- 37508 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Its one of those synths that sounds good even in mono though - much like DS Evolver
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- KVRian
- 1144 posts since 26 Sep, 2005 from Germany
what I really do not like with this scope plug-in, is the fact that switching presets needs some time to load the different modules inside.
But thats due to its concept.
The Solaris hardware will surely be superior in that department.. But I'm sure the price will be also 10 times as high as the scope plug-in.
But thats due to its concept.
The Solaris hardware will surely be superior in that department.. But I'm sure the price will be also 10 times as high as the scope plug-in.
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- KVRAF
- 1830 posts since 15 Aug, 2004 from soundland
It should be added that Antti who did Augur etc. wrote the whole code for this neat machine from scratch.
cheers
HG Fortune
cheers
HG Fortune
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- KVRAF
- 9600 posts since 17 Sep, 2002 from Gothenburg Sweden
Woooott ? Sure ? Sources ?Fortune wrote:It should be added that Antti who did Augur etc. wrote the whole code for this neat machine from scratch.
cheers
HG Fortune
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- KVRAF
- 1830 posts since 15 Aug, 2004 from soundland
Very sure as I talked to John & Antti at the SonicCore booth!jupiter8 wrote:Woooott ? Sure ? Sources ?Fortune wrote:It should be added that Antti who did Augur etc. wrote the whole code for this neat machine from scratch.
cheers
HG Fortune
And btw. there is no CW Scope technology in that synth.
cheers
HG Fortune
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- KVRAF
- 9600 posts since 17 Sep, 2002 from Gothenburg Sweden
Coolness. I just readFortune wrote:Very sure as I talked to John & Antti at the SonicCore booth!jupiter8 wrote:Woooott ? Sure ? Sources ?Fortune wrote:It should be added that Antti who did Augur etc. wrote the whole code for this neat machine from scratch.
cheers
HG Fortune
And btw. there is no CW Scope technology in that synth.
cheers
HG Fortune
No mention of Antti there. But then i saw something to the effect of:there were other people involved,why they are'nt mentioned i don't know.John has teamed up with Holger Drenkelfort and Juergen Kindermann (SonicCore GmbH) to produce the Solaris synthesizer.
Then i saw this.
So this is Antti he's referring to.So that's why he's been so damn busy lately.Also, we brought in a talented dsp programmer to write completely new algorithm code specifically for the Solaris.
Coolness.
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- KVRAF
- 1830 posts since 15 Aug, 2004 from soundland
I think that Antti's involvement should have to be pointed out more prominently therefore I did this post!jupiter8 wrote: Then i saw this.So this is Antti he's referring to.So that's why he's been so damn busy lately.Also, we brought in a talented dsp programmer to write completely new algorithm code specifically for the Solaris.
Coolness.
cheers
HG Fortune
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- KVRAF
- 37508 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
However, now that SonicCore has acquired rights to the Creamware dsp library, I will be able to incorporate their special modules as well in Solaris. I'm also discussing licensing other algorithm work for future dsp expansion packs. It's my plan to have the Solaris act as a capable 'host system' for a wide variety of synthesis types, while still providing an ease-of-use factor."
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- KVRian
- 1236 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Karlshamn, Sweden
this is really incredible news. im speachless with all the new stuff coming for this heroetic platform.
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- KVRAF
- 2813 posts since 14 Feb, 2001 from What do you care? :)
Evolver, the rebirth of Waldorf, and now this.
Pretty exciting.
You said there is no Creamware code in this machine, which it also says on John's site. However, on John's site it also says that they have now acquired the rights to the Creamware dsp library, so the future looks very promising indeed!!!
Quote from www.johnbowen.com
"However, now that SonicCore has acquired rights to the Creamware dsp library, I will be able to incorporate their special modules as well in Solaris. I'm also discussing licensing other algorithm work for future dsp expansion packs. It's my plan to have the Solaris act as a capable 'host system' for a wide variety of synthesis types, while still providing an ease-of-use factor."
Pretty exciting.
You said there is no Creamware code in this machine, which it also says on John's site. However, on John's site it also says that they have now acquired the rights to the Creamware dsp library, so the future looks very promising indeed!!!
Quote from www.johnbowen.com
"However, now that SonicCore has acquired rights to the Creamware dsp library, I will be able to incorporate their special modules as well in Solaris. I'm also discussing licensing other algorithm work for future dsp expansion packs. It's my plan to have the Solaris act as a capable 'host system' for a wide variety of synthesis types, while still providing an ease-of-use factor."
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