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Re: [Evolver] DSI news

2004-12-27 by Ravi Ivan Sharma

That I have no idea of.
;
There are competing features at play. The reason on the Evolver that knob turns seem to steal focus is that there is the "first look" feature which is the feature in which you turn just one notch and the display shows you where you are at. Only the second notch turn and so on changes the parameter. This is a good feature on the Evolver and Poly which aren't really made for live tweaking and have so many parameters in the matrix for so few knobs.
But on the Keyboard, I bet many will miss the first look feature, except that since there are rotaries instead of pots, and as such, there will be no big jumps when one touches a knob. The tradeoff leans towards more control even if it means having to tweak a knob slightly back to the value it was just before one touched it to see where it was at in the display.
I don't know if the O.S. will be redundant subsets for one for all or actually different for the keyboard vs. the others.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Evolver] DSI news

That's great, is it just an OS upgrade that can get ported to the poly and evolver as well?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ravi Ivan Sharma [mailto:noision1@...]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 11:46 AM
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Evolver] DSI news

That is taken care of! You and your friends can gather 'round.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Evolver] DSI news

I'm hoping you'll be able to actually tweak more than 1 parameter simultaneously from the hardware without eah one trying to steal focus as you twist the knobs.

From: Ravi Ivan Sharma [mailto:noision1@...]
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:47 PM
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Evolver] DSI news

Except for about half a dozen miscellaneous parameters, there is a rotary encoder or button for nearly every parameter. The are 4 buttons in the osc section to select which osc the knobs in that section are tweaking. There is the same thing for the 4 LFOs and the 3 Delays. Other than global parameters and setting there is nearly no menu diving. Its all right there for you.
----- Original Message -----
From: dhamaryder
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Evolver] DSI news


Does anyone know if it's possible to get a closer look at it? I'd
like to see exactly what all the knobs are. Man, this thing looks
sweet!

steve


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, niall munnelly
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>
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