Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I'll have to get back with you.  I'm currently
brogramming my own bank of sounds with Deep House and
Ambient music in mind.

I get C-1 without a problem.  No problems tuning
oscillators here.

--- andyklug <andyklug@...> wrote:

> 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?  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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