Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:11:20PM -0000, ski_ex5tech wrote:
>    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.

these are all good points and they make sense.  it just seems a bit odd
to me. I think that's mainly because I figured that even though the
Evolver is cheap, Dave probably had some of that price to help him gain
back the money spent in R&D. but since the rack version is very similar
to the Evolver (and Dave said himself it was pretty easy to get it
working), he probably spent very little on R&D this time around.

I don't know. the price isn't necessarily out of line with other
polyphonic analogs out there (for example, the Vermona Perfourmer has
four voices and is about $900, but has no built-in sequencers), but I
just expected a better bargain I guess.

I mean, last I checked the Andromeda (16 analog voices) was going for
around $1600 used.  it might be difficult (for me at least) to get the
rack Evolver knowing that :-)

>    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?

well, except for the digital side.

Joe