Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

"ski_ex5tech" <ex5tech@...> writes:
> Well... IF Dave happened to be making a keyboardless model, guys like 
> us that really want a keyboard could always go get one of the many 
> little lightweight inexpensive keyboard controllers that are now 
> available.

Yeah, but those usually suck _big_ time (you'd think someone would make
a nice one, but every single one I've tried, without exception, has
been truly awful).  You get what you pay for I suppose.

> "Though I agree with the previous poster that it'd be great to 
> basically have the ability to do what N evolvers could do, I hope 
> Dave doesn't forget about the `big chords'!"
> 
> I don't understand... Could you not play "big chords" with the power 
> of several Evolvers?

Sure, I'm thinking more of various little details that might be good to
pay attention too for a polyphonic synth.  For instance:

  * Making sure it has a reasonable voice-stealing algorithm.

  * Having the ability to detune individual voices in a chord (all using
    the same patch) from each other.

  * Working out the details of how LFOs work in chords -- on some synths
    you can select between having per-voice LFOs and a single `mono' LFO
    that applies to all voices on the same channel (it would be handy to
    be able to choose this _per_ LFO).  Of course this point also
    applies to sequencers...

  etc.

These are things that I think really do help, but are sort of hard to do
for `chained monophonic' synths (like multiple evolvers).

> Also... Imagine the possibilities of different sounds on each of the
> individual notes in those big chords!  Not to mention multiple
> sequencers - one for each "EE" ("Evolver Equivalent")!

Oh, I am... :-)

-Miles
-- 
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