Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

It sounds very "Quasimidi". It won't fool you into thinking its an 
analog but it does have some nice sound shaping facilities. The best 
feature is that one of the OSCs has a number of sampled waveforms 
available which makes it very good a pad-like sounds. The other two OSC 
are more in a analog modeling vein though they aren't as good as say a 
Virus's.

The filters are OK. The one glaring weakness is in modulation 
resources, if you do not factor in the sequencer. The LFO, EGs, and mod 
routings are pretty slim. But...

The ability to assign sequencer lines to any synth parameter really 
makes this have some great sonic possibilities. The sequencer is one of 
the better analog-like implementations with some good performance 
features. You can even use it to control external gear, including 
sending CC's.

I still like mine mainly for the sequencer. Four independent 16x4 step 
sequencers is pretty cool. So even if you have no use for the sound 
(which I doubt) the sequencer is probably worth the price of admission.

drK

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On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 07:41  PM, peter sedin wrote:

> hi guys:)
> does any of you knobtwiddlers ever played with a
> polymorph?
> read some and liked what i read..and it looks like i
> can get one cheep.
> 4x16 rows of seqs that one can set to indipendent
> speed(32/16/8/4) and independent CC# and
> that...rocks!!
> but never heard one live.
> so can someone that worked with it give hint on how it
> sounds...??
> peter