[sdiy] Solaris at NAMM

[David Ingebretsen]

I did pre-order one a year and a half ago and have it paid off. I am very
anxious to get my hands on it. You make a good point about the filters etc
but, they are classic, friendly, interesting sounding filters/oscillators
and John has allowed for an extremely flexible signal path for
combining/modulating these basic elements which will allow those with talent
(not me unfortunately :) ) to assemble some very new and unique timbres.

The great thing about the design is John has been very active soliciting
ideas and comments from the pre-order group. Something that is very unique
in this industry from my experience anyway.

~~ -----Original Message-----
~~ From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
~~ bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Tom Wiltshire
~~ Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:12 PM
~~ To: Graham Atkins
~~ Cc: synthdiy DIY
~~ Subject: Re: [sdiy] Solaris at NAMM
~~ 
~~ Yeah, I'd like to see these out in the wild too, although I doubt I
~~ can justify buying one. I haven't got any more grandmas left to sell,
~~ unfortunately ;)
~~ 
~~ It looks like great hardware, but I admit that I was a bit
~~ disappointed to read the features on the website - a Moog filter, a
~~ CEM filter, an ARP filter, oscillators from X, feature from Y, etc
~~ etc. Why design such a great instrument and then use it to copy stuff
~~ that's already been done? I think the synth world really needs to
~~ pull its head out of its own backside and start looking *forwards*
~~ instead.
~~ 
~~ Still, it does look like a great piece of kit, and if it came with a
~~ developers kit so I could program for it, I'd go and steal someone
~~ else's granny and sell her to get one!
~~ 
~~ T.
~~ 
~~ On 19 Jan 2010, at 17:53, Graham Atkins wrote:
~~ 
~~ > For those of you lucky enough to get to the show, is there any sign of
~~ > a "production" version of John Bowen's Solaris yet ?. It must be 3
~~ > Namm's
~~ > since the first prototype was on show, It seems to be dragging on a
~~ > bit
~~ > and I haven't seen anything reported on it this year.
~~ >
~~ > Graham
~~ >
~~ > _______________________________________________
~~ > Synth-diy mailing list
~~ > Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
~~ > http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy
~~ 
~~ _______________________________________________
~~ Synth-diy mailing list
~~ Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
~~ http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy