John Bowen Synth Design

Hi,

I'd be interested to see the source code indeed, to evaluate how hard it would be to port it to the Mac.

Thanks

Also once replaced, is there any good use for the old LCD screens ? Would John take them back as spares for building/repairing other Solaris units ?

Hi,

I was wondering if the inverted background center LCD comes with the $250 upgrade kit, or is it a modification to the existing LCD display ?

I would be in although this sounds very expensive - a significant chunk of the original price of the synth.
OLED is still relatively new - maybe give it another year or two and these parts could drop to half the current price as production ramps up ?

Full randomness on all parameters might be unusable 90% of the time ;) But hey ...

Reminds me of a feature I love on the Virus TI : you can "lock" a parameter (or maybe group of parameters, can't recall) to its current value, so that it doesn't change even when browsing through presets. Creates ...

Well that was quick...
I had some issues with Projucer (latest version 5) but eventually managed to export to XCode, here's what happens :
First, dozens of these errors :

https://i.imgur.com/Bwv38le.png

And then a lone one : " 'auto' not allowed in lambda parameter " on line 1861 of ...

I'll give the Mac compilation a shot... please bug me if you haven't heard back in a week or two

I agree that this would be a great addition. As I've just said elsewhere, given the outstanding sound engine we already have, I value this kind of usability features at least as highly as new sonic possibilities.

I'm also ready to contribute my $200.

I understand that the purpose of this is primarily to fund a DSP developer.
Maybe I'll be a slightly different voice here, but as far as I'm concerned the Solaris is already so deep in terms of sound design that multitimbrality / a split keyboard performance ...

That's great, are you planning to release the presets?

I would be surprised if this were even possible.
The Solaris is a digital synth, its LFOs and envelopes are not an analog electrical signal you could patch in and out like in a modular synth, they are software functions that shape the output from previous functions (oscillators etc), the result ...

Jim, you're awesome !

John, glad to see you've apparently been able to sort source code / IP issues with Sonic Core.

Hmmm, it could be a contact problem inside the ribbon, but I think first be careful on doing the calibration routine.

If you press the keypad 1-8-3 simultaneously, you get the self-test menu. You will see the list of choices, and you want to pick #3 Ribbon.
It will say to touch the rightmost ...

After a few busy months, I came back to my Solaris tonight and I'm faced with worrying behavior:

After about 10 seconds, pitch suddenly jumps up 3-4 octaves (a C2 quite consistently becomes an A5), and I need to touch the ribbon controller (anywhere) to put it back into place.

Then a dozen seconds ...

AFAIK the free version of JUCE is GPL only, i.e. you also need to release any code under the GPL too. http://www.juce.com/get-juce I think you are right and I think I’ve misunderstood the license. I’m going to have to remove it, at least for the time being. I’m very sorry about that. :(

The GPL ...