Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:09:03 +0100, Andrea Toni <Andrea.Toni@...> wrote:
> -- kbd aftertouch ? or only vel ?  is it a Fatar or .. ?

It's said to be the (exact) same keyboard as the Alesis A6, which is a
Fatar, but supposedly one of the nicer ones.  I think the A6 has
aftertouch, so the keybed itself must support it.  Still needs the
wires to the synth though, I guess D.S. could leave those out :-).

>    and i really dont like the shape of the knobs.

They look like the exact same ones as on every other Evolver model (I
guess he bought enough to last a while :-).  Maybe not completely
ideal, but too bad either.  A lot of people have a large-knob fetish,
but that might make the panel too cramped -- there are a lot of knobs
crammed in there.

[Personally, I'm a fan of having different knobs for different
functions -- filter cutoff biiiig knob, sequencer little knobs, etc.
-- and irregular layout, to help your muscle memory, but those things
add to the cost.]

The thing I'd be most concerned about is the quality of the underlying
encoders; I've heard of people having their Evolver encoders die.

-Miles
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