[sdiy] Solaris at NAMM

[Chris Muir]

The Nord Modular could be added to that list, and even Eventide has  
succumbed to making new products to obsolete the old.

On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Adam Schabtach wrote:

> 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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