Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Klown,

It's very user friendly. The interface is good. I am programming 
from the unit, not sounddiver. The matrix style of programming was 
around in some sequential products and waldorf's pulse, MW, MWII and 
uQ make excellent use of it. Becomes second nature and very 
intuitive after a little while. I have had the unit just for 4 days 
and I am starting to be able to zip all over it without even 
thinking. Such is the best you can ask for in a synth. The display 
is not a limitation at all. Most large displays don't help with 
actual programming, they just allow more parameters to be accessed. 
in this case with the shift button we have 8x16=128 parameters at 
our fingertips plus 16 main functions. Hit the sequence button and 
its a whole new playing field. The only limitation is that for more 
and more functions, room will have to be made in the slots and then 
new faceplates may be necessary, but the thing is so loaded now that 
most extras are way esoteric. On the other hand a lot of extras can 
be thrown in by using the existing parameters. For example, the 
highpass filter is 0-99 for at the output stage and 100-199 for at 
the input stage. A concrete example is Glide. Right now each of the 
4 glides goes from 0-99 but is normal glide not fingered glide. In 
the future the same parameter could be 0-99 for glide and 100-199 
for fingered glide, etc. So there is lots of room. I don't know 
about dsp power. I am not classified enough for that. :) Safe to say 
it is good though.

That patch will probably be in the release, so you will get it.

It is all 4 oscs tuned to some chord. the cuttoff is tweaked low 
with the res high so much is obliterated. there is at least one lfo 
moving the cutoff very slowly and slightly giving an overall wave 
effect. There is another lfo moving faster and effecting cuttoff but 
in a random square way but just a bit to give the other lfo's cutoff 
wave some slow rhythmic bumps. There is an lfo doings some panning.

There is noise added which comes in and out depending on the 
position of the cutoff. There is at least a 2 tap delay going on too 
with a lot of feedback to that it almost (but not quite) goes into 
endless feedback at the top of a cutoff cycle (you can here it) the 
clip lasts for maybe 1 cycle and a bit, or perhaps just 1/2 a cycle.

Other than that, I'll never give away my secrets! :)

Ravi



--- In DSI_Evolver@y..., "mr klown" <klown_mr@h...> wrote:
> 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@h...>
> Reply-To: DSI_Evolver@y...
> To: DSI_Evolver@y...
> 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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