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OK I Give up

2005-06-22 by bcomnes

I've had my mono Evolver now for about 8 months and I've had a real 
blast tweeking the default sounds, but decided if I was ever going to 
get the most out of this thing it was time to start some patches from 
scratch 

I have tried the route of tweeking default patches down to a vanilla 
sound (and that works) but being the proud macho fool that I am I 
wanted to start from dead zero, so I downloaded the .syx file the 
blanks bank 4 so I could start building my own but so far nada...dead 
zero

Here's where I'm at,it seems to me that this should produce something
I get MIDI signal to the evolver, cause other banks are working, the 
trigger select and key off settings are ok , the osc1 level is up, so 
are my master and VCA volumes....but no sound 
emanates.....grrrrrrrrrrrr

Globals
I have MIDI channel correct (banks 1-3 respond fine, the light 
flashes in MIDI in) 
Volume at 100
Transpose at 0
BPM 135 (but irrelevant)
CLock Div at 16n  (also irrelevant)
MIDI clock off

lock seq off
poly off
input gain 0db (irrelevant)
fine tune 0
MIdi ch 1


the relevent ( I think) patch 1, bank 4 settings are 

OSC1 
freq C3
fine 0
shape S-t
level 96

all other oscillators set to level = 0 

filter 
freq 14
env amt 17
attack 5
decay 16
sustain 11
release 9
resonance 20
key amt 13

vca 
level 8  (and if i crank it up to 100 to drine , still nothing!!)
env amt 10
attack 5
decay 9
sustain 34
release 15
pan St1
vol 99

LFO1 
freq 14
shape tri 
amt 4
dest OAF - all oscillator frequencies


LFO 2-3 all freq 0

ENV amt = 0

trigger select ALL
KeyOff/transpose -12

Seq1-4 dest all off 

and NOTHING comes out 

this post probably qualifies as the stupid question of the month, but 
can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'm embarassed to ask, but 
I figure I can't be the only guy in town who decided to zero out one 
of the banks with the patch cleanser in the files section of this 
forum, so an answer here might help the next guy like me save a few 
hours

thanks to any and or all help on this


 Brian
(from a cheap hotel at midnight  in Chicago

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