Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

----- Original Message -----

From: SoundTower SoundTower

To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:58 PM

Subject: Re: [Evolver] two major bugs with Soundtower editor

Hi dfkjh

Mark is in Europe for a few weeks. This is his baby. I will forward your note and let you know what he says.

Thanks for the note btw.

Derek

www.soundtower.com

dfkjh <dfkjh@...> wrote:

my OS: mac os 10.3.9
Soundtower editor version:1.5.1
using a desktop mono evolver.

there are currently 2 major bugs with the Soundtower editor that i would like to see
addressed.

1. cannot name / rename banks in the Librarian.

the Librarian comes with the first 15 banks prenamed (Piano, Organs, Lead, etc...). you can
rename these by clicking the black triangle to the left of their name when they are
selected. if you name some banks, save them, and then quit the program, when you re-
launch the program and then load the library file you just saved, the bank names you
created will be gone, replaced by the default names (first 15 prenamed as before and the
rest blank).

2. tempo and clock divide data not registered with evolver when transmitted from
librarian.

when transmitting a patch from the librarian or the phantom banks, the tempo & clock
divide data is transmitted BUT NOT ACTIVATED in the evolver itself. if you are watching
the display in the evolver itself, you will see the data change, but the new tempo & clock
divide info will not become active until you manually tweak the knob, at which time the
evolver will jump to the new setting.

this bug was actually reported here before:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSI_Evolver/message/4916

...and you stated that you were looking into it:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSI_Evolver/message/4924

i'm curious if any progress has been made?

i have to say that the second bug in particular makes the editor all but unusable for me. i
work with the genetics and morpher alot (great features, by the way) and have saved
hundreds of patches generated this way. now when i go back and listen to those patches,
they all sound different. the reason for this is that when i was initially auditioning these
patches & saving them, i was hearing them at whatever tempo & clock divide happened to
be in the edit buffer at the time, and not the actual value that was stored in the patch.

i hope these problems can be addressed soon.

best,

m

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