Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Going by your clips, i liked Keyboard3 the best.  Thats where i plan to take 
the evolver on its own: dark, noisy, always changing noise/ambience 
pads/seq.  Of course once i get one, i'm sure i'll end up many other places, 
but thats the main interest.  Do you remember what was going on in that 
clip?

How user friendly are things?

klown


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Ravi Ivan Sharma" <noision1@...>
Reply-To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Evolver] New sounds online
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:03:41 -0000

The Evolver pages are a little newere with a new sounds page here.

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/listen.htm

I guess its safe to reveal that I am a lucky beta tester since some
of my sounds are online. All I can tell you guys after using an
early beta verion is that this little synth is GREAT and remarkably
rock solid in use, no crashes freeze ups or anything, minor minor
things, which are all taken care of or will be taken care of. I will
rue the day I have to give my beta version back! Until then I am
trying to come up with as many very good patches as I can. And I
can't wait to get the finished product.

The amazing thing about this synth is that in some aspects it is
hardly a monosynth. It is true stereo in that there is a filter per
channel. Also with 4 oscillators and a 4 track sequencer with each
track having a single oscillator pitch as a destination, you can
have 4 note polyphonic sequences as my sequence samples show. The
kicker is that while the sequences are rolling, you merely can play
a keyboard note and the sequences will immediately transpose to that
note (as you can hear). Wow! Also I was amazed while playing one of
the sequences using 4 separate oscillators, I put glide on one
oscillator and then when the sequence is running and I transpose it
up a lot, you can hear the single oscillator glide up and down while
the others continue to play their sequences, after the glide, then
the gliding oscillator resumes playing its sequence (or that is what
it sounds like at least!) Monophonic? Bah! Its stereo-
quadraphonic!! :)

Anyway, I don't think anyone waiting for one will be disappointed. I
have it up side by side with my Waldorf Pulse and Minimoog, and it
is holding its own extremely well.

The step sequencer is very versatile in that you can have any
destination per track and you can have each track loop at a differnt
step for many wild grooves. Its not as mental as a Notron (what is?)
but it is as good as most standalone (expensive) step sequencers.

Ravi





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