Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

hey brian!

that filter value is kinda low.. why not open it right up?
also, what's the HPF doing in this patch? if that's set at "o 99", you won't
hear much.



julian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bcomnes" <bcomnes@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:50 PM
Subject: [Evolver] OK I Give up


> 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
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>
> 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
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> 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
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> LFO1
> freq 14
> shape tri
> amt 4
> dest OAF - all oscillator frequencies
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> LFO 2-3 all freq 0
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> 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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