Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Sorry I wasn't clear about what is happening. Comments inline...

>From: "Ravi Sharma" <noision1@...>
>Reply-To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
>To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Evolver] Re: Envelope triggering
>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:08:32 -0500
>
>WHen you say th Evolver syncs and follows tempo changes, do you mean you 
>are
>running the elvolver sequencer and it slows down and speeds up as you 
>change
>the tempo on the MC505? Or do you mean that the time dependent LFO's and
>delay's inside the Evolver's patches change according to the tempo of the

Both of these things are happening, so it looks like the Evolver is 
receiving clocks. It's just that the Evolver envelopes only trigger when I 
press Play on the 505, but don't trigger on each step of the Evolver 
sequencer as I expected that they would.


>MC505? If not these two things then I guess you mean that the Evolver
>happily plays along as a static sound source triggered by the mc505, and of
>course it tracks tempo changes. However unless you are acheiving the above
>two examples, then you may still not have the CLOCK set to EXT in the mc505
>(even though midi is still transmitted) the clock out setting on the mc505
>is not under "shift midi" but under "shift sequencer."

I assume here that you're referring to using one of the 505 tracks to send 
MIDI notes to Evolver. That works perfectly; just as if I had my keyboard 
controller plugged into the Evolver.


>
>I am sorry if you did all this before, but I can't tell from your email
>whether indeed you have the clock out set to on rather than off.

No problem. It doesn't hurt to triple check when there are so many variables 
involved. In any case I got the results I wanted by using Evolver as the 
master rather than the slave.

After looking at the Trigger Select description in the manual, it seems I 
may have been making an an unwarranted assumption. In reference to Combo 
mode, the manual says "envelopes will only be triggered when a MIDI note is 
held *AND* the sequencer is running." So I assumed a logical AND of the MIDI 
gate and sequencer gate, which is not the case. Call up factory patch 72 in 
bank 3, start the sequencer, then press a key on your MIDI controller. The 
envelopes only trigger on the key down, not on every sequencer step. Not 
exactly the same situation as above, but related. Perhaps this is what Dave 
intended; it's just not what I expected from the description.

Sorry if this is long and incoherent. It's late and I'm off to bed now.

>
>Ravi
>

Cheers,

Woody


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