John Bowen Solaris – a life’s work
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John Bowen Solaris CF-Card
“Another thing I like to point out – you have your entire Solaris contents on the CF card, so you can take just your
card to another place that also has a Solaris (studio, friend’s house) – insert your CF card, and voila! You have it just
as if you had packed and brought your own Solaris keyboard with you!” (John Bowen)
Solaris and the local heavy weight JD-800
20 sounds! On the first night with my Solaris I created 20 sounds of my own. It’s always a good sign if you can
quickly and easily create sounds on a synthesizer of this complexity. It clearly speaks for the musical instrument.
Straightaway, the Solaris had replaced my favourite polyphonic of 20 years (the
JD-800 still sounds warmer (being simply unique in this respect – why, I do not know), the Solaris opens entirely new
worlds with its masses of sound material.
