Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

hello,

i'm a newbie too, so somebody else correct me when i go astray. 

i've come up with some conclusions that have helped me and i think 
will help you. first of all, there is no starting from scratch. you 
can not get a blank slate. the oscillators are always on. i come from 
beatbox programming with the roland style step editors. i'm used to 
sequencing being, put this note/beat here, put this note/beat here. 
that's not how evolver works. there are always things happening, you 
have to shape what's happening into something.

again, the idea of making a pattern is kind of the wrong thinking. 
the sequences are just strings of paramters (numbers to the non-
geeks) that are getting fed to a destination. the numbers can be 
notes (oscillator frequencies) or settings (envelope attack), the 
sequencer doesn't care. 

sorry if i got some or all of this wrong. got my evolver on monday 
and it's taken me the last two nights to wrap my head around this. if 
it's all wrong i'll have to start over. 


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "David" <lost_one95340@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I've looked over the manual, over and over, but I just don't get 
it. 
> I mean, i'm sure it's really not that complicated, but I could 
still 
> use some help. My intentions are not to waste your time or mine, 
but 
> it's just not clicking with me. Maybe if someone out there could 
give 
> me a quick tutorial on the sequence, maybe how they would build a 
> pattern from scratch, that would be extremely helpful. Thank you 
all 
> for your time, in advance.
> 
> dmn