John Bowen Synth Design

Pre-Order Update April 7, 2013

There are no more units available for purchase from our second production run. Deposits for the third production will start in August. Many thanks to all who have ordered!

Solaris Owners Forum

If you are a new Solaris keyboard owner, make sure you register as a Forum Member, then send me an email with your user name, so that I can add you to the private Solaris Users Group. This group covers several topics, such as Future Feature suggestions and Bug List, as well as any OS updates, new Preset files, and any other data files and samples that users wish to upload and share with each other. (Note that this is for the hardware Solaris, not the Scope plug-in I make.)

Demo from Howard Scarr

Hi All,

Howard Scarr, sound designer for Hans Zimmer, Urs Heckmann (Zebra2, ACE), Access Virus, and many others, has made a short piece to show off some of the sounds he’s did for the Solaris. Here is “Solaris Plexus”, which you can find on the Audio Demo page, http://www.johnbowen.com/audio-examples.html

THE JOHN BOWEN CHRONICLES

I've written some articles as a follow-up to my monthly column that appeared in German Keyboard magazine. I hope you find it a fun and fascinating look into the synthesizer design process, and perhaps inspire some of you to take your own adventure exploring and creating with the SCOPE design software. First we start with a bit of background information...