Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

From: "primatetom2003" <baltimorescience@...>

> perhaps some people here could be helpful with this.
> to what extent is evolver midi controllable?

midi notes
velocity
aftertouch
pitchbend
some controllers
sysex.

> what i mean is how many simultaneous parameters can be controlled
> with midi?

Not that many, unless you get into SysEx.
Then again, how many parameters do you want to automate with MIDI?

> i'd like to try using a controller like the midiman surface one,
> which is quite full featured.
> any suggestions?

yeah. pick a control surface that actually exists.
:-)
surface one appears to be vapourware..
Please tell me if I'm wrong, however..... I was really looking forward to
that, when they started advertising it all those years ago.

> from what i gather from all these excited individuals,this sounds
> like a great synth.

Yep. It's amazing.

> however being an analog fan who's used to many alternative type
> controllers (theremins, ribbons etc.), i don't want to simply play
> the evolver with a keyboard or simply play with the sequencer.
> the eight knobs and matrix doesn't sound appetizing either (coming as
> i said from a modular analog type point of view.)

Control surfaces are good and I imagine that using one with evolver would be
really good.

Then again I dont think that a control surface is that necessary...
the evolver is *not* the same as any other synth you own... It's a monosynth
with a stereo audio path. It's a analog and digital hybrid with feedback
system built in. as a resuly it can do all sorts of strange organic and
inorganic sounds.

So even with just a normal MIDI keyboard playing it when the sequencer is
running,  It can get very interesting and expressive. It has 3 envelopes and
4 LFO's and a 16x4 sequencer...  it responds to velocity, aftertouch, etc
and you can store patches with it.

> if i could use an outside controller to do all the tweaks twists and
> turns that i like, that's a different story.
>
yeah there's a set of PC1600 patches around the place. Though I haven't used
it  (not wanting to risk losing my existing PC1600 presets..)


julian

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