Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Looks like you've got it sorted but I wanted to say don't beat 
yourself up not getting too far with those 'blank' Evolver Banks. I 
know someone went out of their way to post them and all, but they 
don't make a great starting point for creating patches because every 
single parameter is set to zero. These initialized banks come from  
Soundtower's Evolver editor which IMO are kind of useless. I would 
take the Evolver's Initialized program (program 128 on bank 1) which 
is great 'starting point' since the osc's will sound and basic 
things like mod wheel are set up already. Just copy that (I know 128 
times is a lot) you will save yourself a lot of grief.  I guess 
starting from zero on all settings is a useful exercise to try at 
least once!       


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "bcomnes" <bcomnes@y...> wrote:
> thanks to Julian  who said 
> 
> 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'thear much.
> 
> well the filter helped a little and the hpf  wasn't the issue 
> 
> and thanks also to Miles who said
> 
> I think the basic formula for the overal VCA output level is:
> 
> final_level = (level + env_amt * env_level) * volume
> 
> [where "env_level" is the current level of the VCA envelope.]
> 
> So for typical sounds you'd set "level' to 0, "env_amt" to 100, and
> "volume" to 100, and reduce "volume" if it's too loud. For drones 
> you'd
> set "level" to 100 and "env_amt" to 0.
> 
> that seemed to do the trick 
> 
> anyway I'm now getting something out of my pride and joy Evolver 
so 
> the rest is the work to fill in patches 2-128   
> 
> thanks to all 
> 
> this is a great forum for a great synth