Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi there evolver list,

I'm an almost evolver user (end of the month, Dave says...) and I'm very 
much looking forward to that day!!

>From: "Ravi Ivan Sharma" <noision1@...>

>So the question: Is the Pulse punchier? If so, why? What is it
>about the
>Waldorf?
>
Its pretty widely written that "punch" in an envelope comes from having a 
slight delay between attack and decay part of the envelope.

There is also the attack time (I find that the pulse doesn't have a 
particularly fast attack time, my sh101 beats it) that will make an 
impression on how punchy it seems, but I'm pretty sure that its the slight 
delay between attack and decay that makes the biggest difference.

Try experimenting with a basic "gate" vca signal on the synth, and a 
compresser. Medium level, high compression ratio. Use the attack time on the 
compresser to play with the amount of punch in the amplitude envelope. not 
quite the same, but something thats easy enough to set up.

>Or is it something else, like the filter in the Pulse being
>more overdriven or something?
>
Perhaps... try running the pulse oscillators at lower volume. Thats one of 
the pulse's "tricks" - that its really easy to overdrive the filter, even 
with one osc up high, for that "moog" kind of filter sound.

>If anyone here has both, I would be interested in your detailed 
>observations on this topic--

give me a couple of weeks!
:-P

>the hope being that we can isolate
>the magic dust and have that added to the Evolver . . .
>
hmm maybe, though I like the idea of the evolver being something thats very 
different from what already exists.




julian


"Give a man a stick of gum and he will chew for a day. Teach him how to 
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