The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Announced at the recent MesseMusik show in Germany was the new synth from the master John Bowen

This is the guy who, after working at Moog, went on to bring us the Prophet5 and later the Korg Wave station, and many more

His new synth the Solaris is gonna be a beast.

Ive played with a demo of the softwae version, and its a serious bit of kit. Too complicated for me. It seems to be able to do anything. Any of you synth junkies out there may want to check this synth out.

Id love the 3grandish its gonna probly cost...but if ya got the money and want a new 'classic' synth.... this may be the purchase

wow, that's a lot of displays... where did you see the software version?

-craig

I was linked to the software from PlanetZ which is the user forum for creamware cards...

The software version is not a VST however... it will only run if you have a Creamware DSP card.... Tho now they're called 'Scope' and owned by a company called SonicCore

I got to play with a 1969 Putney in college. It was so much fun. That little resistor-peg/joystick control was so cool, and though it had a keyboard in, it was more fun to use low frequency oscillators as modulators to make little rhythmic patterns, and mix lots of tracks of that together.

Definitely playing with a physical system that makes sound is qualitatively different from programming a digital system that emulates them. That was the only time in my life that "synthesizer" was more like a electric guitar than a computer. Would be fun to get that back.