John Bowen Released Major OS Upgrade For The Solaris Synthesizer

John Bowen, developer of the flagship hardware Synthesizer Solaris announced a major new OS upgrade. Check out below all the news and fixes.

John Bowner Solaris is full featured Synthesizer with:

4 Oscillators, each with several types available: MultiMode, WaveTable, CEM, WAV (sample playback), VS (single cycle waves), Mini
4 Filters, each with selectable Inputs. Filter types are: MultiMode Lowpass, 24, 18, 12, 6 dB, Highpass 24, 18, 12, 6 dB, Bandpass 24 dB, Comb (2 types), State Variable 12 dB LP, HP, BP, & BR,SSM Lowpass 24 dB , Mini (Ladder) Lowpass 24 dB, Vocal Formant
2 Vector Mixers, 2 Rotors (special 4-step waveshape sequences), 2 AM sections (includes Ring Mod)
6 DADSRs, 1 8-stage loopable envelope
4 free LFOs, 1 Vibrato LFO. Each LFO features delayed start, fade in and fade out times, key sync and Phase control
Phaser, Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Delay, 3-band EQ effects

New features and changes added with v1.3.1 OS:

Joystick position is now stored in the preset.
Assign buttons and Unison Chord stack now stored with the Preset.
A Random Tune parameter both in a preset and at the global level. This works per voice, and only affects the whole voice’s tuning
Preset names and categories of the current bank are now loaded into a memory cache, making selection and viewing of them faster.
New MIDI Realtime on/off in the global MIDI page to send/receive Start/Stop commands.
Ribbon now outputs MIDI controller on CC18 & CC19.
Solaris remembers the last presets selected when you turn it off, so it will resume where you were.
Global override parameters added for Sustain and Expression Pedals.
Changed the Mod Source listing of Ped1 and Ped2 to “ExpPed and “SusPed” to make it more clear
The ribbon Offset parameter now works differently. It adjusts the “neutral” point from the left end to the right end of the ribbon.
FX Bypass now does not alter the on/off state of the Preset’s effects parameters, but truly bypasses the FX bus, and stays bypassed when selecting through presets or using the Compare feature.
All remaining system bugs fixed. These include numerous display-related issues (parameters not being refreshed, wrong pages appearing where they shouldn’t, etc..)