Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

The Sherman rough? Not necessarely... but you gotta know where
to get your sounds :)

It took me more than a year to get used to the unit, and find
the sweet spots. I kept on trying, as I have a friend who also
has one (which sounds completely different by the way!), and he
managed to do very subtle stuff with it.

Now, I can't part with the beast anymore, it's one of those
magical machines that will make your sound come alive, organic,
or whatever description you want to stick to it!

I also use the Evolver as a filterbank, it can't do half of the
stuff that the Sherman does, but it can do other stuff: synced
delays, synced LFO's, stereo processing, triple envelope, 
sequenced filtering to name a few.

My tip: Get (and keep) them both! 
Remark: The Evolver is more instantly rewarding than the Sherman, with
the Evolver it's just easier to make a sound that sticks in your mix,
while the Sherman might seem to do the same sort of thing all over...
and that thing won't necessarely fit to your mix/style.

Persist with the Sherman though!

Greetz.

Ballonic