John Bowen Synth Design

John Bowen wrote:Still hoping for a late November release date....

Hmmm, my birthday is in November.

Do you know who is distributing it in the US? Any dealers signed on yet?

I believe he mentioned that they're projecting to be "less than the Waldorf Stromberg" which is supposed to sell for $3500. Things change, especially during development, but I took that to mean he was hoping for $2999 MSRP.

A lot of the sounds in the Spectrasonics Atmosphere plug-in, mentioned in another thread, layer sound design with traditional strings, voices or analog pad. We know that it will do the latter, but some basic sample playback would really add to it.

How much RAM did the Wavestation EX have? 4MB? It ...

I still haven't seen a photo of dark/wood sides, have I? It's always been light/wood or dark/metal.

Depends on sample memory. Solaris is not meant to be a "rompler" type instrument, though.

That sounds familiar – I'm sure you're still frustrated about the piano/drums/accordion upgrade ROM for the Wavestation. :roll: This is not as mass-market, though. But you might want to throw in a piano ...

Will the plug-in version continue to evolve based on the hardware synth? I realize that the hardware has more powerful DSP, but will features like the SSM filter make their way into Solaris 4.5 or some future version?