John Bowen Synth Design

John, Thank you kindly. I am moving homes, dealing with Mom who passed away last week and a new studio setup. More to follow in a few weeks. Thanks!

Most companies charge for upgrades and updates especially for significant new features so I see that as very natural for the SOLARIS. I have not seen any updates here yet on this but will check in from time to time. If I had any free time I would do something but I have zero free time and the free ...

Still awaiting news on this. Also, I do love the SOLARIS design - really nice!

Hi,

A while back I had gotten the instructions on an old email address on the proper way to open the SOLARIS. Something that sounds like a loose screw or something is rolling around inside my unit - I have been renovating my studio. In any case, I lost the original instructions and while it looks ...

So where do we send the money?

I will commit $1000.00 for the following - just send me a link - with these addons I get the equivalent of a whole new synthesiszer!

1) Filter Profiles to match Yamaha CS80 and GX1 coupled with some templates and representative patches.

2) FM Oscillator

3) uses the enveloge generator functions to ...

I still like to contribute top "software" extensions as that would be the most useful and I would be happy to pay.

It would be great to build-in some recallable templates for different synth workflows (I like the CS80 patch template but could have been nice to just have a bunch like these to clone ...

For those who do not pay, charge for the "upgrade" a modest amount. This will determine who wants the upgrade and it will put money back into the process so the rest of us can benefit. Not everyone can pay upfront. But some can pay after its all done. I'm sure some of the things like FM synthesis ...

Hi John,

I can contribute via PayPal and happy to do so. I can do $1K to $2K. If someone wants to actually write some code for things that I want (like phase modulation / FM style oscillators), then I could even do $5K. It all depends on how much can I get of what I would like.

Let me know ...

I am wondering how many folks would buy a Solaris Rackmount (expander) version with note-overflow (to increase polyphony) and other things?
If there is a rackmount in the future, please count me in

I own both. Just started a Soundcloud - and will be updating more regularly.
https://soundcloud.com/user-25189817

Of course, in a mix, no-one can really tell which synth is which (well, maybe you can hear where the CS80 plays only because it has a weirdly distinctive filter). But most of my synths ...

Thank you so much Jim!!!

This is a truly great community contribution and one that I hope will continue. If you have a PayPal account, I will be happy to make a donation in the spirit of open community source code update efforts. As a software engineer myself with little time on my own hands I ...

Having the SOLARIS for a year, A SUNSYN and also getting getting to compare it to a ROLAND and other keyboards.

Conclusion: The SOLARIS has its own sound and can mimic the othrs were well.

I am super happy I bought it.

Cheers

I waited a long time, relatively, to get a keyboard. While I was waiting, I bought a few other keyboards and played with them

The cool this is that after two years, when I got the SOLARIS, I was very happy that I got rid of the other two keyboards - so the wait had been well worth it. Music ...

I am starting to look into the SOLARIS from a software coding point of view.

I notice a few things;

1) No other manufacturers, expect Symbolic Sound (Kyma/Pacarana) provides hardware with a software that is accessible. I am a registered owner of two Kyma systems but these are deep and not really ...