Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

> but here's the gist of my question, if I have a sound patch on the
> first mono synth that I like (and spent hours getting just right)
> would I then have to meticulously replicate that on each of the
> downstream evolvers? or does the first one control the other two with
> respect to oscillators and mod routing etc, etc. ....and if I have to
> replicate the patch, does the sysex send in the first deliver the
> patch to  the second and third units easily?
> 
> also in a chained environment , how do MIDI program changes work?

I don't have a lot of experience with chaining (I tried it a long time
ago with an older OS), but my impression was that the way it's
supposed to work is that you set the evolver to the "super slave mode"
where every keypress (even, e.g., the shift key) in the first evolver
gets sent to chained evolvers and affects them too.  So when you edit
your patch on the first evolver, you're in effect editing the patch on
all the evolvers in the chain.  If you've got it setup to resend
incoming midi, then any remote patch dumps etc. should also
identically affect all the evolvers in the chain.

Not sure how well it works in practice though -- at the least it seems
like it might be a pain making sure all the evolvers are in the right
mode if you often switch between using them polyphonically and using
them as individual machines.

-Miles