Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

This is odd. It doesn't sound like this when you just run the drums 
straight into your mixer? I often run gear through my evolver, with a 
patch I use so that the evolver basically acts in thru mode, I never 
notice any anomolies. I usually have the VCA level set to 100 (of 
course you don't have to if you only want to hear the input when you 
trigger envelopes), the VCA volume set to about 50 (it can overdrive 
a little if set to maximum) ext. in set to 100 although sometimes I 
back off a bit, input gain set to +0dB, and master volume set to 
whatever I need it to be. Oh, if you have the sequencer running on 
your input and you aren't using the VCA EG on it you should set env 
amount to 0, otherwise it can clip, I believe. 

Umm, are you sure you don't have anything like the filter cutoff set 
to something below maximum (164)? Since snares have a lot more highs 
than kicks, it's possible that could be set low and you'd hear the 
kicks fine, but the snares would sound dull and a bit faint. 





--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, blip <bleep@w...> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, pela_gius wrote:
> 
> > reading through the manual I noticed that there seem to be a 
couple of
> > different parameters that effect the input gain.  Is that 
correct?  I know there's
> > "Input Gain" but I think there's something more to it  too.
> 
> yeah, there's input gain and ext in volume.
> 
> > Of course you could always turn down the signal before it hits 
the Evolver.
> 
> the problem is the dynamics... i seem to need to send the signal 
through a
> compressor (which i don't have) for it to make the evolver useful 
in this
> end... the kicks distort the input and the snares and hats are 
barely
> audible... it would help if they were on different tracks, but i 
haven't
> bothered to do that yet...
> 
> > elsewhere (distortion, input hack, etc.).  And in general the 
signal chain of the
> > Evolver can be distorted at lots of points so check the whole 
gain structure of
> > the patch from beginning to end (i.e. maybe the delay or 
something is
> > distorting).
> 
> yup... it took me about a half hour to make a patch that was just a
> through for the external input, heh. but that will serve as a good
> template for future processing patches.
> 
> bleep.
> out.
> 
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