Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Joe said, "Does that justify the price of $1200 to $1500 though?  Is 
it just me, or does that seem a little high for what the rack will 
offer?  Maybe I just expected it to be an outrageously great value 
like the Evolver is..."

The Evo Rack hardware is essentially four "regular" Evolvers crammed 
into a 1U rack.  The "regular" Evolver is about $500 USD.  Multiply 
that by four, and you get $2,000 USD.  Even allowing for savings due 
to the reduction of the count of common items such as the enclosure, 
power supply, etc., $1,200 to $1,500 USD sounds pretty good to me.  
If $500 is an "outrageously great value" for a monophonic Evolver, 
then $1,200 to $1,500 for a four voice Evolver is even more 
outrageous.

Keep in mind that this is not a "virtual analog" machine we're 
talking about.  If you want to quadruple the polyphony, you have to 
quadruple most of the hardware.  Make sense?


Ski
www.ex5tech.com
EX5Tech Evolver forum:
http://www.ex5tech.com/ex5ubb_cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=23


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:08:21PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> >    Of course, isn't a real tradeoff -- the sequencers are 
extremley cheap
> >    to
> >    implement  (just  a bit of [non-cpu-intensive] computer code), 
whereas
> >    two more
> >    voices would be fairly expensive (extra analogue hardware + 
probably a
> >    more
> >    powerful DSP required).
> >    -miles
> 
> does that justify the price of $1200 to $1500 though?  Is it just 
me, or
> does that seem a little high for what the rack will offer?
> 
> Maybe I just expected it to be an outrageously great value like
> the Evolver is...
> 
> Joe