John Bowen Synth Design

Thank you a lot

because,
I guess for 2K hours of work, and the potential amount of money, you must get something like 1 and 2 $ per hour of work.

Manuals contains all necessary stuff.
User interface is fluid, so there is not really a "learning curve".

Solaris has a very chirurgical approach, and playing skill will help you a lot,
because you will be able to calibrate your sound personnally with your playing taste.

It is more difficult to ...

on the 70 single part presets

24 played here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5emyInOjXY

44 played here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaXrxk56dFg

(2 are not played, one on the two is the overdrive leads of the first multi, the other is an immitation of kw8000 pad)

first multi played here
https ...

In case you would like to use Paypal for your contribution, there is 2 solutions :

-Use the link https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kalaspace (put your email in the description so i can send you the preset)

-Send me your email by private message after what i send you a dedicated paypal link

In case you miss the post on solaris facebook group,
you can now get the presets demoed on my 3 last youtube vids
(look a the news here https://www.johnbowen.com/news/160-2021-01-03-01-03-19.html)

After having freely given 182 presets,
I try the adventure of money awarded presets :)
(17 euros)

I ...

yes,
if forgot to say to you in my last mail,
if we could have a choosen gate time on the sequencer (between 0% and 100%), it would be very cool
(because actually need to handle this with release time for the stabs ...)

the manual says
"Volume adds or subtracts from all VCA levels of the Part"

i think the approach was to avoid a multiplication in the calculation of final volume.
i don't know if the add or subtracts on the modulation level could be easy to do ...

it's only when vca part are modulated
for example i have a
-drum seq patch with snare on vca2 0% modulated by eg2 100%
-stabs patch with vca4 0% modulated by btn2 75%
both are not affected by Multi Volume
(the menu Multi to control Volume of each part of multitimbral)

little complex to explain,
if ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5emyInOjXY

Playing 24 custom patches for John Bowen Solaris
1 Pad Analog (try to made my best for something analog)
2 Pad Vintage (variation of 1 more shiny less delay)
3 Synth Pluck MW (lots of feedback for filter decay)
4 Pad Lush (lots of feedback for the best ...

my perception
(after having published more than 180 presets)

+50€
-display of joystick coordinate x y in real time
i think it is cheap to do,
the help provides by this one can save lot of search time.
i think it can be done for mod wheel pitch wheel and ruban too.
option : record joystick moves ...

ep sounds need your general vcurve set to preset

tested, it works
(i think user will need to be informed to go on system and put GVCurve, GACurve under 0% to see "preset")

otherwise i will have to put advised vt curve in the preset name but it is a little sad
i tried to modify some presets without using it but it is really a headhash
specially for "electric pianos" preset types where velocity is already involved in a lot of modulations

the fact vtcurve is not stored by preset anymore is a big deal for me
(i have a lot of them using this, it is(|was?) on of the best feature)