Arturia Jupiter-8V Videos on Gearwire

Two vids up.

layout - check out the LFO display
sounds

like a sunny day at the beach.

deadzonestudio

flickr by DeadZone. Title link takes you to the shot with mouseovers.

MusikMesse 2007: Waldorf Zarenbourg

YouTube via cm2magazine.

The DSP Programmer Behind the Solaris

I heard Antti Houvilainen, the man who brought us ASynth, Augur and the Taurus VST is the DSP programmer behind the Solaris. I checked with John Bowen and confirmed that this is the case. You can read a little more on the subject on the Planet Z forum. Title link takes you to Antti's web site.

Initial Filter Types of the John Bowen Synth Design Solaris

Via this thread on the gas-station:

"Yes, there's several different emulations for the filter section:

1) Moog-style 'ladder' filter, with all varible types 2) State Variable Filter - "Oberheim" style 12 dB slope 3) Prophet 5 Rev1 (SSM) and Rev3 (CEM) style 4) Comb/tube filter 5) Special sweeping EQ and FX type modes

In the future, I hope to have other filter types, as we can expand the types as needed (this applies to the Oscs and VCA models as well). One strong candidate for 3rd party module support is the Flexor 2 modular system by Adern, for example.

regards, john b."

John Bowen Synth Designs

Previous Solaris posts

Catsynth Tatoo

Title link takes you to the post on Catsynth.com.

Arturia Jupiter-8V Comparison Testing

Gavin sent the following into the AH list. I thought it was an interesting insight to how the test the accuracy of their models inside Arturia. I also thought it was an interesting challenge. So far no on on AH has taken him up on it. I asked him if I could put up a post here, and he gave the all clear. If you are up to the challenge, go for it and post back.

"Been a lurker on the list for a long time and am an analog synth fanatic also. In the day time, I work for Arturia and did the filter models for the Jupiter 8V. Since alot of people on the list have a Jupiter 8, I would be very interested if we could conduct some tests against the original, in the same way we do at Arturia to verify the circuit models accuracy. I can give you details of the procedure we use and do then you can do the same. Then it will be up to the list to decide."

followed by

"I have put up on the ftp at work some measures and audio files to show a small part of what we do pre-release or after each version build to make sure everything is working ok. I also included a read me file to show some tips on how to go about matching the Jupiter 8 and Jupiter-8V. These techniques would also be used for making the original preset banks. It would be great if some people could match up some presets as well."

Here is the link to a 7M zip of the files. I also mirrored them here.

fucketybuckety

Title link takes you there. Guess the artist.

Update also see this post.

Wendy Carlos Video Interview

Title link takes you to the interview on NewMusicBox.

via rp in the comments of this post.

Casio CZ-101

Title link takes you to more shots.

via this auction.