Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:28  AM, Richard wrote:

> I'm kind of surprised by the amount of people on the list who seem to 
> think
> the evolver is difficult to use and understood. Considering the amount 
> Dave
> jammed into this "monosynth" (laughter, its so much more...) and the 
> low
> cost I think the Evolver is VERY EASY TO USE and the matrix UI with 
> the 8
> knobs is a very cunning piece of design and works well for absolutely
> everything except the sequencer - but hell compared with the sequencer 
> in
> theb (£2300!) Alesis Andromeda it is really quite easy to use. I'm no 
> synth
> wizard but I gotta say the Evolver is actually the easiest synth to 
> use and
> program that I own... It even has a simple and clear manual. I'm 
> really not
> all that clever but I was gigging with it less than a week after I got 
> it
>
> (the others are the Andromeda, Nord Micro and Yamaha Vl70m BTW...)
>

I have to agree. Dave did a great job using the limited panel features. 
It is quite fast to get around and I think if it were less complicated 
it would seem very easy to use. The trouble is that this is one of the 
more complex synth voices. But just for the typical VCO/VCF/VCA/EG type 
of adjustment it works fairly well!

My only complaint is I have yet to memorize the source and destination 
neumonics for the moduation matrix. So that page (actually those pages) 
of the manual are permamently at hand.

drK

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