Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Aah fair enough.

Buttons on the PC1600 *can* affect the value of data transmitted from 
the sliders, but they can't arbitrarily change any fader message to 
anything you want (which is what you would need to do to have pc1600 
buttons selecting patches, I think)

What you could do, is make up 8 different PC1600 presets, and each 
preset with 16 sliders controls one row of evolver panel. You select 
presets while playing by using the UP or DOWN button. (or get some kind 
of midi patch change box with 8 buttons on it, and hook that into the 
PC1600?)

You will probably find that the bonus of eliminating shift will be eaten 
up by no longer being able to scan down the matrix from the knob you are 
twising to see what exactly you're editing at all times. But if you make 
your own set of PC1600 presets, remember to name every control in the 
PC1600 so you can hit the LEFT button before adjusting a slider, and 
it'll mute the PC1600's MIDI output, and just display the name of the 
slider on the screen. That's very useful for working out where you are!

The existing PC1600 patches are setup similar to what you want already, 
I think. But more in logical evolver system blocks, rather than straight 
row blocks. Might be worth your while just to learn to use that. One 
thing - I think they are old presets, and only contain sysex for editing 
a V1.0 evolver. so more recent evolver SysEx messages and parameter 
ranges will be missing. Still, it'll work with the parameters and ranges 
it does support, and it's definately a start!



julian


cord_mueller wrote:

>The reason behind this is to still have the flexibility of the matrix
>but with additional "fixed" controller/sysex for things you are using
>quite often (Filter, Q, Level, etc.). Also, having 16 buttons you can
>forget about the shift function. 
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>Anyway, I read the manual and it does not seem to work anyway. I will
>download the PC1600 template for the evolver and start from there. 
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>Thanks, 
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>Cord
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>>You can't. But I'm not sure why you'd want to, anyway.
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>>there is a set of PC1600 presets available (from memory, on the DSE 
>>site) to download that make the PC1600 control an evolver.  The presets 
>>are organised into 'pages' that address different parts of the synth, 
>>like oscillators, filters, envelopes. LFO's, etc. Download that, get it 
>>in your PC1600, and have a play.
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>>julian
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>>>This is my first mail here on the list. I am getting a little mono
>>>evolver hopefully by end of this week. I looked at the user interface
>>>and I wonder if I can make it more "userfriendly" by using my PC1600.
>>>My question is: can I setup the 1600 this way that it functions as the
>>>8 encoders with the buttons switching between the matrix rows?
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