[sdiy] Solaris at NAMM

[Graham Atkins]

Yes Cheater,

You're absolutely right, that was done on the Synclavier which does
have a lot of power. You could also include the Yamaha TX816 I suppose
which could also make some impressive noises.

Graham

On 20 Jan 2010, at 16:54, cheater cheater wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfg9DVwOd9w
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 17:40, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 Jan 2010, at 14:44, Richard Wentk wrote:
>>
>>> It's basically a 1980s instrument that's very late - like a PPG  
>>> Realizer
>>> that actually works (or will work) - not a 2010s instrument that's  
>>> ahead of
>>> the game.
>>
>> That's a bit unfair, I reckon. Show me a single 80's synth that has  
>> anything
>> like the processing power in Solaris. It's got 6 SHARC processors,  
>> and does
>> all it's audio calculation in 32-bit floating point at 96KHz. That's
>> definitely a 21st century specification.
>>
>> Whether it does anything genuinely new with all that power is  
>> obviously a
>> separate question.
>>
>> T.
>>
>>
>>
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