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Re: Filter Overdrive

2003-06-30 by pela_gius

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, trippler@t... wrote:
> I love the filter saturation of the Evolver.
> Combined with a little distortion it does those characteristig mighty bass
> sounds that none of my VAs is able to produce.

Speaking of overdrive I wasn't a big fan of the distortion in the Evolver when I 
first started using it.  But recently I realized that it helps to warm up the signal a 
little at the end.  For example I often find myself creating patches that sound 
nice and analog but then I add in all three delay lines (can't help it) and 
maybe a little of the feedback and soon the sound gets a kind of metallic 
digital quality to it.  Turning up the distortion just a little focuses the sound 
back to the center a bit and rounds off some of that metallic sound in a very 
useful way.

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