John Bowen Synth Design

Congrats on the huge and amazing 2.0 update - happy to send over a donation to Jim for his hard work.

Thanks for the update here John! Sent a donation to Hrastprogrammer. and happy to send a donation to Jim Hewes as well for their great contributions.

I am not sure how difficult MPE support would be to add, but that would also be a very interesting item for Solaris. Also the feature request list ...

Event Horizon 3 is here & features 128 new presets created by me over the last 2 years. I have learned a lot of tricks and this volume features use of rotors, amplitude modulation, feedback routing, wavetable modulation, Linear FM, and more.

Get it here: https://blackoctopus-sound.com/product/event ...

Yes, the Event Horizon 1 set is included in the factory presets. If you contact Toby, he might make an adjustment.


Yes I have kept the Event Horizon Volume 1 page live only to accept donations as mentioned on the page, (as it is included free in the Solaris factory library now) & keeping it ...

Put in my deposit for 1U rack unit w/software editor.

I would be interested in an expander (rack version with no display needed for me) with an editor for the use:
- expand the polyphony for use with a future multi-timbral mode
- VST editor librarian.

Therefore, you might be looking for two programmers- one for DSP and one for the external utilities.


For librarian / vst editor something like these that would be absolutely amazing: https://www.mysteryislands-music.com/product-category/plug-ins/

I wonder if that programmer would be available ...

Yes, definitely willing to pay $200+ for a 2.0 update.

Here are a few things on my wishlist:

- VST editor / Librarian
- alternate FM mode (Is it actually phase modulation? The type of typical FM in most synths)
- unison panning spread (a way to spread out the unison voices in the stereo field for ...

I have been using Valhalla vintageverb quite a bit which I like a lot (you can really dial in the tone with the EQ settings). I have heard lots of great things from the BigSky Strymon and have been considering getting one of those for a while.

FINALLY got a chance to install the new update. So awesome scrolling through presets, worth the update alone! It's also going to be so much fun automating the CC16 & CC17 joystick now. Huge thanks again to John & Jim

This looks like it is going to be very helpful. Thanks!

Very cool app - thanks for taking the time to write that. My dream would be to one day have a VST app like that which would also allow patch switching and real time editing of parameters.
Not sure what you mean by real time editing. It already does follow changes that you make on the Solaris. But ...

Since you bumped....I’m still continuing to work on this editor hoping the Solaris’s MIDI implementation gets finished. I thought about making it better looking with maybe a more traditional, modular look. Though Solaris has a lot of parameters and connections so it’s hard to fit. Be glad to ...

Sounds great! Awesome to hear more people are working on some extra sound banks for Solaris, I will be sure to pick it up.

¿Phase modulation, maybe for the next OS update?

Would be very cool for some more gritty sounds