Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I'm in the process (somewhat exhilarating) of replenishing my studio after
having had to sell off almost everything during an extended period of
unemployment awhile back...

I got an evolver a couple of weeks ago, and have found it to be one of the
funnest synths I've ever played, an experience that probably a few of you
can identify with.

yesterday I was in Robotspeak in S.F. , and they had a Perfourmer and the
drum machine (forget name) by Vermona. These are nice toys, definitely - I
was especially drawn to the Perfourmer, which seems like a particularly
unique synth - lacking in programming capability where you usually find it,
but having some unique flexibilities. But as I was testing these out, I
started noticing that they had an evolver lurking close by, and I started
realizing that I really wanted a second one more than I wanted either of
these (might not have gotten to that point if you could save patch memory on
the Vermona synths).

This was last night - I'm just scratching the surface at this point - spent
too much time last night trying to figure out how to use the Poly Chain mode
while hooked up to Logic.  I ran into the following issues - I'll mention
them in case it might save someone some time in the future, and also in case
anyone wants to make fun of me. One thing I didn't keep straight initially
was that, once you have the synths hooked up correctly, there are 2
important settings that can influence your mental condition, Poly Chain
mode, and the MIDI xmit.  What happens (I think this is what was happening,
it's all a blur now, since I was drinking Chimay to help me think more
clearly) - you have MIDI Xmit (and receive on the 2nd evolver) set to either
xmit parameters or All (which seem like a reasonable setting if you want
your knob turns to register on both units), and you change the Poly Chain
mode to All or notes, then a MIDI feedback loop can form between the
Evolvers and Logic (or other sequencer), since the poly chain mode setting
gets sent to the second evolver. This was driving me crazy for awhile.

Perhaps there's something that I'm missing (hope so), but I'd like to see
this capability made a little more user friendly somehow.

Gene