Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

> 3. There is no automatic means to align the RAM contens of rack and
> keyboard

This can be misleading. The RAM contens of 2 chained units should be aligned 
or initialised once. After that, any edit or change on the master unit is of 
course written to the slaved unit as well.

Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Trippler" <trippler@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Evolver] Poly Keys


> 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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