Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

1. Chaining was mainly implemented to increase polyphony, ther2fore 2 
chained units will still be 4 part multitimbral but with 8 voices available. 
If you want to use them as 2 independent units with 8 parts simply switch 
the chain modus off.

2. The current Rack OS doesn't include the unison modes from the keyboard. 
Afaik OS updates are in the works. Another reason could be that the init 
patches of rack and keyboard aren't quite identical. They should be 
identicakl though after you've saved them.

3. There is no automatic means to align the RAM contens of rack and 
keyboard. The easiest way is to dump the keyboard sounds with an appropriate 
program like midiOx and to transfer them to the Poly Rack.

Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chromexus" <chromex@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: [Evolver] Poly Keys


> Hello, I am a new member but have been an Evolver/poly owner for a
> while. Friday I got the poly keys. I fooled around with them this
> weekend , with great pleasure. Because I am fortunate to have a poly
> rack, I tried the chain hookup. I have a few questions:
>
> 1. How does this work in combi more? Is it up tp 8 part multi with
> the possibility of at least 1 parameter. pitch say, sequenced for
> each voice? IF so how is the keyboard used for programming the rack
> combi?
>
> 2. I used the so called "basic patch" found in bank 1 patch 128 of
> the keys and bank 2 patch 128 of the rack and tried to change the
> patch parametrs from the keys. They both changed, but the 4 rack
> voices sounded different from the changes on the 4 key
> voices.Starting from identical sounding patches, this is not
> supposed to happen according to the manual, although the manual also
> cautions that "the latest updated software' must be used. I am
> unaware of any OS updates for the rack, is one in the works in order
> for editing from the keys? Am I doing something wrong?
>
> 3. Although my sound set in the rack has some patches that are
> identical to the keys there appear to be quite a few different ones.
> Is there an easy way that I missed in the manual to send the key
> patches to the rack?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> The key version seems like sonic heaven overall.
>
>
>
>
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