Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Gene Schwartz wrote:
> 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.

I suppose you could argue that poly-chain is a `local' setting, and that
evolvers should ignore incoming poly-chain changes, but OTOH for those
(rich) people that are chaining six evolvers, the current behavior could be
a lot more convenient.

I think in general if you're constructing a midi loop through a sequencer
like that you've simply got to be careful though, because there are lots of
potential problems like this; obviously once you realize the issue, it's
simple enough to fix, either by filtering in the sequencer, or just
manually turning off poly-chain in the second evolver.

-Miles
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