[sdiy] Solaris at NAMM

[Adam Schabtach]

At the risk of sounding jaded, that "upgradeable for years to come" bullet
point is becoming something of a red flag of warning. The Wave is a good
example, but also consider the SoundArt Chameleon, the Peavey DPM-3, and the
Roland VariOS. All were supposed to be "upgradeable for years to come" and
yet none of them panned out that way.

--Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of 
> Graham Atkins
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:10 PM
> To: Tom Wiltshire
> Cc: synthdiy DIY
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Solaris at NAMM
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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