[sdiy] Solaris at NAMM

[Graham Atkins]

I quite agree Tom,

You would hope that potential owners would use the the abilities of  
the Solaris to create new sounds, otherwise you would
be better off saving your hard earned money and buying an average  
Roland, Korg, Yamaha etc....or any of the others that
also do the same "presets". The developers kit would be good, but John  
Bowen has already said he wants the software to be
upgradeable for years to come. The same was said about the Waldorf  
Wave, and look what happened there.

Graham

On 19 Jan 2010, at 22:11, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> 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.