Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

well, I'm a known soundtower hater, but that's due to dealings with them 
way before the evolver editor came out. I don't own their evolver 
editor, and never will, because I made the decision to have nothing to 
do with them ever again.

Conceptually, the editors are polar opposites.

bottom line is, the soundtower editor WILL let you edit parameters on 
the screen. Problem with soundtower products (IMO) is that they ship 
things unfinished and refuse to actually fix them. And if you ever email 
them with an actual BUG then they'll just ignore you (unless you're on a 
forum, like here, in which case they'll make noises about fixing stuff, 
then continue on with whatever their agenda was)

On the other hand, the company responsible for the Vyzor editor really 
want their system to be absolutely, 100% perfect. As a result, I still 
aren't sure that they've come out of beta testing yet..... after 
announcing their product, complete with screenshots, what, 3 years 
ago??  :-) (Though as a registered vyzoer user, I think it's basically 
finished already... I never even got around to installing the latest 
bugfix cause the previous one was working fine)

The biggest benefit to going vyzor is that it's not just a standalone 
editor, it's also got a VSTi mode (though you need a separate MIDI port 
just for the evolver to do it) - so you can load it up in cubase or 
live, and automate all the parameters on the evolver, like you could a 
softsynth.

Vyzor is also based on MidiQuest, which is a generic patch editor 
program - this is cool in a lot of ways, but caused problems in earlier 
versions of the program, where you had this massive library architecture 
getting in the way when all you wanted to do was grab a patch from the 
synth's memory, tweak it, and save it back in the synth's memory.... but 
the latest couple of versions of the vyzor editor have cut a lot of that 
away.


so, yeah... either will do you, but I'd vote vyzor. mostly because the 
people responsible for coding it actually care about their customers, 
and want a product that's not just a usable tool, but something exciting 
and fun, and maybe inspirational to use, and extending the synth past 
what DSI originally had in mind...... plus the VSTi thing.





sirsimonjames wrote:

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>I use the sound tower editor which is alright but what in your
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>Is there a feature comparison anywhere?
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>Thanks-
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>-- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "David" <lost_one95340@...> wrote:
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>>Yea, I think that's the one i'm gonna go for. Thanks very much.
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>>-dmn
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