Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

My feelings so far are that the presets are (with a few exceptions) 
programmed overly bright and tend toward trying to recreate the 80's, 
which is not something I particularly care about.  So far, Ive gotten 
the most by programming it myself.

The Digital OSC's are great when your looking for digital harshness. 
the analogs are much more round sounding to me, though not as broad as 
on other analogs.  The PEK's sound, overalll, is much tighter sounding 
than my andromeda (for example).

There are a *few* trigger options that I believe are missing 
(specificaly, one where the envelopes are not triggered by each step of 
the sequencer, but controller values are output with one for resetting 
on each note on, and another that free runs in this mode).  Beyond that, 
I only wish that the delay had filtering of some kind on its output 
without having to be fedback - but thats not going to happen.

tony


andyklug said  on 7/19/2005 11:25 PM:
> Hi...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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