Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

The New DSI Polyphonic Synth

OK, with his permission, here's the scoop from Dave on the poly synth.

The bottom line:  The new synth will essentially be four Evolvers 
packed into a 1U rack with a 16x2 LCD screen.


Dave's Notes (between dashed lines):
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The poly is basically 4 Evolvers in a 1U rack. The voices are 
identical to Evolver, for obvious connection reasons. Lots of jacks 
on the back - stereo mix outs, individual stereo voice outs, a stereo 
mix inputs, and stereo ext ins. An Evolver can be used as a 
controller, and the Evolver out can be put into the mix in, 
essentially giving you a 5 voice Evolver. There will be a dinky 16x2 
LCD, but as usual programming on a 1U rack is pretty silly. Of 
course, this is one of the reasons for a 16 character program name in 
Evolver - it fits nicely on the bottom line of the LCD on the poly.

Beyond that, it's fairly straight-forward, since it is just multiple 
Evolvers. That's why it's been quick so far getting it running - just 
today I started playing it polyphonically already. The voicing will 
have to be much different in a polyphonic environment. The sequencers 
will still be there, separate in each voice, so quad synced 
sequencing should be fun to play with. Or, one voice sequencing while 
the other 3 are played from the keyboard. No overall sequencer, tho. 
Another trick is that the ext in can be routed to any or all of the 
voices, for possible quad processing. Or, take the individual voice 
out from one voice and put it in the ext in, and route it to another 
voice for additional processing.

Anyway, that's the basic overview.
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Very cool possibilities, no?

Regarding Dave's reference above to the "16 character program name in 
Evolver"... that's a new feature in the upcoming OS update.


Ski
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