program what? Start with a preset and start turning
knobs and pressing buttons until you like what you here. Figure out what you are
doing by reading the manual. check Access' site for a synth tutorial that will
help teach you the basics even if the tutorial is for the Virus'. Go find a
friend or sit down at a music store and find someone who will show you around,
*any* synth to show you.
Okay here goes:
Turn to patch one bank one of the factory presets.
It is a 10/8 sequence I programmed for the Evolver.
1. start the sequencewith the Start/Stop
button. Nice eh? :) keep the sequencer ON throughout this
tutorial.
2. press the sequencer button--light on, press it
again until the light is off.
3. press the 8 button--light on.
4. you will see that knobs 1 through 4 now choose
sequence desitination for sequences 1 through 4 respectively
5. this particular sequence has each destination
going to a different oscillator--this is why it sounds polyphonic even though
the evolver is monophonic
6. turn knob 1 one click, this doesn't change
anything but shows you its status, a second click will change things (not
yet!)
7. turn each of the first four knobs one click each
to check their status and you will see 01f for knob one through 04 for knob 4
which shows you the 4 oscillator destinations for each sequence.
8. okay, turn knobs 2 through 4 to the left and
until they say off. Now you have turned off sequencers 2, 3 and 4 since they now
have no destinations.
9. you should here just one part of the
sequence.
turn knob 1 to the right and scroll through 01f,
02f, 03f and 04f. You will hear the sequence being played through each of the
different oscillators in turn. You have have just seen how to change the
destination of a sequence to another place--in this case the different
oscillators.
10. turn knob 1 one more to the right till you get
OAF which stands for Oscillator All frequency (i.e. the destination is all four
oscillators at the same time). You should hear the same sequence but more full
since all four oscillators are doing their thing.
11. okay press the sequencer button. Sequencer
light on.
12. watch the lights as the sequence continues to
play. You will see that the sequence moves through the 8 lights, then goes
through 1 and 2 and the restarts at one. That is because this sequence only has
10 steps instead of 16.
13. Press button 2. The second row deals with the
second of the 16 steps of sequence 1. (row one deals with the first 8 steps of
sequence 1).
14. Turn knob 3 one click to check for status. You
should see rSt. this means restart and sends the sequence back to the
beggining.
15. Okay, turn knob 3 again to the right until it
says OFF. you will have no removed the restart command and turned that step to
off. But you should now see that the sequence flows through knob 3 (step 11) and
continues through to step 16 until starting again. the values of steps 12, 13,
14, 15 adn 16 are zero so you will here the same low note for each of those
steps.
16. Now turn each of knobs 3 though 8 to the value
of 72. You will now hear steps 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 all play the same
note.
17. Now turn knob 6 and knob 8 to a value of 96.
Each number corresponds to 1/2 a semitone, so in order to go an octave higher
than the note that 72 represents, you have to add 24 since there are 2 semitones
per octave. so a value of 96 attached to a oscillator sounds one octave higher
than the value of 72. You should now be hearing the higher octave steps for step
4 and 16 which you have just done.
18. Press the sequencer button--light
off.
19. press button 8.
20. turn knob 2 (seq2dest) to noL (which stands for
Noise level) -- this is why the page of the destinations in the manual is your
best friend.
21. now sequence two is controlling the level of
noise on each of its steps. you should hear it.
22. in order to change the level of the noise on
each step of sequence 2 you need to do similarly what we did in order to change
the notes for sequence 1: Press the sequencer button and then press buttons 3
and 4 alternately to be able to turn knobs that change steps 1 through 8 and 9
through 16 of sequence 2 respectively.
23. Press button 3 and then turn knobs 1 through 8
to zero. Now you will hear noise on only steps 9 through 16.
24. Now you can tweak the level of each step to add
whatever level of noise you want to each step.
25. You can always go back and change the seq2dest
to some other destination and see what happens.
26. press the sequencer button. light
off.
27. press button 3. Turn knob 1 which is filter
cuttoff frequence and play around and do filter sweeps as the sequence
plays.
28. turn knob 7 (resonance up to
full--100).
29. turn knob 1 (filter cuttoff) to
34.
30. sit back and listen to the freaky drums
sequence you just made.
31. smoke something, then press button 5, turn knob
8 (output hack) to full (14).
32. double click shift button (light 5 starts
flashing indicating you are in shift-hold mode). Then tweak the distortion
amount on knob 8 to acid taste.
Sync a drum kit and party.
----- Original Message -----From: DavidSent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:32 PMSubject: Re: [Evolver] Stupid question....
I'm sorry guys, I'm totally clue-less. I love this synth, and don't
want to return it, but looks like i may just have to if I can't learn
to program something simple. Is anyone up to making me a really
basic, quick tutorial? Just go through the motions, explaining
exactly what you are doing from start to finish...what parameters are
being used what parts are being sent to destinations...all that. I
know that having something to read, step-by-step would be very
helpful to me. Thanks once again for all your time.
dmn