Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi...

I got a chance to play a Polyevolver Keyboard for a couple of 
hours recently and I was very impressed with the sounds I was 
getting.  I thought I'd ask those on here who have had time to 
develop programming skills with the Polyevolver to comment on 
what, after owning one for a bit, strike you as the units strong and 
weak points in terms of tonality.

Messing around with the presets and doing some off the cuff 
editing I was most impressed with the analog bass sounds 
like "Snoop Bass" and "Numan Cars Bass", as well as some 
nice almost TB-303 sounding pulse-wave sounds using the 
4-pole filter with a lot of resonance.  Straightfoward Prophet 
5-like saw-wave polyphonic parts seemed quite nice, too.

I had less success doing anything interesting with the digitial 
oscillators (apart from supporting the already good sound of the 
analog oscillators) or coming up with "lush" pads.  There might 
well be some presets that cover this territory, but I spent most of 
my time on the PEK programming from bank 1/128 (the 
initialized patch) to see what I could do.

Anyway it strikes me as an exciting synth, the most interesting I 
have played perhaps since the Q+ was out a few years ago.  I'd 
love to hear some comments from owners about the sorts of 
variety they are able to get out of the PEK.

Also I had some difficulties with the interface, specifically the
lack of indents in the knobs for selecting things like oscillator 
frequency, modulation matrix destination, and other things where 
you've got a long list of discrete values, of which you are trying to 
land on a specific one.  (For example when tuning an osc down 
an octave, shooting for C-1, it would keep jumping from C# to B 
and back again).  Does this get easier after a time?  Is there any 
hope of making mods to one so certain knobs have indents?