Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Sorry im still wishing there was a slide option for individual notes- like a 303!! Please im begging!. You would be able to turn on note slide (maybe as a squencer destination?) for each note either on or off. Or possibly off,slow and fast slide would be a real killer.

Its sort of like a portamento for individual notes.

Quest

-----Original Message-----
From: phonophobie [mailto:sidstation@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 6:20 PM
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Evolver] Dave Smiths reply about our little Wishlist and Future Updates ;-)

DAVE:

Thanks for the input. Hard to say when a version 3 might be done,
especially since it requires a Poly Evolver update also. Some of
these, like adding CCs, may be more likely; others, like highfrequency
LFO´s (oxymoron) are unlikely.

Glad you like the synth in the meanwhile. It's always the trouble with
such instruments - it's hard to know when to stop!

-Dave


Mail to DAVE was:
Hello Dave Smith!

Lately there was a little discussion going on at Evolver yahoogroups and
thoughts about possible future Updates. We decided to send you an email
about that. You are maybe interested in peoples thoughts. Note that we are
allvery happy owner of this great Synth. So this "wishlist" should not be
understood as a "buglist" or anything like that.

It´s too hard to describe suggestions in a few words so i attached the
orginal messages below.
Here are the headlines:

-highfrequency LFO´s
-16 steps on sequencer
-extra assignable midi CC messages as modulation sources
-more or unlimited modulation slots
-alternate overlay;)
-the double clicking
-gate times for individual steps


Please let us know what you think.
You can reply to this mail and i will forward it to yahoogroups. Or mail
there directly.

However, Thank You for that awesome machine!!!


YAHOO MESSAGES:

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I hope there will be further updates for the evolver..

Personally, I want faster LFO´s to make some nice Ring-/Frequency
Moduation type sounds with it - mostly in combination with
selfresonant filter . The regulary speed of LFO ends at 150... they
should be at least four times faster imho ;) maybe there could be
further steps implantated... like the switching at the glide
feature... range 1,2,3,4


The DCO´s as modulation source doesn´t work that good because they
are getting to trashy in the higher frequncies. ( ok, sometimes that
can sound nice also ;)

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I doubt this would happen (further revisions, that is) anytime soon... But
if it were, the only feature that I wish the Evolver had was longer
sequences.
The ability to make, for example, sequence 1 handle the first sixteen
steps
and then sequence 2 the second sixteen steps (etc) would be excellent!

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yes that would be nice but it would be better when "shift+Seq" would
be used for that. there is no function so far being in seqencer shift
mode...

...added to wishlist ;)

( i also doubt a update will come soon .. but who knows - maybe DSI
is interested in people thoughts .. )

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well, TBH I'd still be happy if the OS was never updated but I'd like the
capacity to map a handful of extra midi CCs as modulation sources -
maybe an
option to use one instead of pressure/pedal etc... this could open up the
capacity of the evo as a windsynth amongst other things... my wx5 has
4 or 5
additional midi controllers which the evo can't currently use.

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I like your ideas. You should email Dave. I sent him an email
earlier about extra assignable CC messages and he responded. Use the
email off his wepage.

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yes... we should send a email in the near future. So people come up
with some wishes or just some thoughts. I guess i speak for all
evolver users when i say that i am still a proud and happy owner of
this amazing synth. Any comments and suggestions could be
inspirations.... Even for newer DSI gear.

So far we have 3 things, right?

-highfrequency LFO´s
-16 steps on sequencer
-extra assignable midi CC messages as modulation sources

i remember someone was talking about "more or unlimited modulation
slots" earlier. But things like that would are hard to do since the
interface is limited to the actual synth architecture.
Ok let me think...Maybe "modulation source number4" could be further
enhanced... phew...complicated...but the display could be like this
M4-OFF-SEQ1-SEQ2-SEQ3-SEQ4-LFO1-etc-etc
M5-OFF-SEQ1-SEQ2-SEQ3-SEQ4-LFO1-etc-etc
M6-OFF-SEQ1-SEQ2-SEQ3-SEQ4-LFO1-etc-etc
M7....
M10000

i wish i could write my own OS ;)

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ok, i would add.....

1. an alternate overlay for the evolver that labels it as
an "environmental sound supressor/concentration enhancment sound
generator"...this would make it suitable to use at work with
headphones :)

2. double clicking a row select button should bring you into shift
mode (currently, you have to double click the shift button, it would
be much faster to just do the row button...even a tripple click would
work for me).

3. cc's for other parameters.

4. gate times for individual steps would be nice (although you can
do this with the envelope settings).

other than these, i am compleltely in love with the evolver. i
thought i would use it mostly with my windsynth, but i'm such a step
sequencer junky (yes, i have a problem), that i can't stop programing
sequencer patches!
...