Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

if you want filters then why not spend a lot less and
keep your evolver and buy a sherman filter bank ;)



--- Miles Bader <miles@...> wrote:

> Loving my mono evolver, I've been lusting after the
> upcoming KB, and
> thinking that maybe I could swing one with my summer
> bonus.
> 
> However the other day in a local music store, I
> noticed that they've
> just dropped the prices of the Andromeda A6
> dramatically[*], to the
> point where it's competitive with the PE-KB (I guess
> this is the same
> comparison that people in the more price-advantaged
> USA have already
> been making... :-).
> 
> Anyway, I was playing with the A6, and it generally
> sounds very nice,
> though not really the "perfect poly analogue".  Is
> there anybody on this
> list that has both an A6 and a Polyevolver, and can
> offer some opinion
> on how they compare after much use?
> 
> My initial impressions are:
> 
>   * A6 has nice filter resonance, seems a bit more
> useful for those
>     filter-oriented sounds than the evolver's
> decent-but-plain filter.
>     I liked the A6's filters a lot (though people
> seem to diss them
>     constantly on various mailing lists...).
> 
>   * Pretty much every patch I listened to on the A6
> had a kind of buzzy
>     nasal character (not necessarily _bad_, but who
> knows it might be
>     very annoying after a while).  The Evolver has
> that great
>     big-clean-powerful digi-ana sound going down.
> 
>   * The "effects" (such as they are) on the Evolver
> are _much_ more
>     interesting than the A6's plain-vanilla digital
> fx unit, but perhaps
>     you can do some of the feedback etc. in the A6's
> analogue engine?
> 
>   * The evolver's sequencers are really nice, but
> the A6 seems to have
>     some decent sequencing options too.
> 
>   * The A6 has acquired something of a bad
> reputation for being
>     "flawed", e.g., with slow envelopes &c (which
> software updates
>     apparently work around, but don't completely
> solve).
> 
>   * Obviously you get a lot more poly with the A6.
> 
>   * Visually, the Polyevolver KB is definitely
> better looking.
> 
>   * Same KB action :-)
> 
> 
> -Miles
> 
> [*] This is in Japan, and they traditionally charge
> insane prices
>     [before it was ~$4500 for the A6!] for
> megasynths like that, but the
>     local Alesis distributor has recently changed to
> a smaller and much
>     more competitive company.  Surprised the hell
> out of me, but ... yay!
> 
> -- 
> If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
>  [George Carlin]
> 



		
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