Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Cool I'd love to see what you can do!  Great to meet the designer :-)  BTW,
good point on the racks being the way to go for multiple Evolvers.  I hadn't
even been thinking along those lines.  My approach was to hack an existing
Evo into a rack format, but if we're talking actually 'redesigning' the
thing, there are other approaches we could take.  Like perhaps a REAL LED
display to show parameter names for example - nah... ;-)  Actually, this is
really cool on the Neuron - there are small displays along each axis of the
joysticks that actually show you the name of the parameter being tweaked
when moved in that direction, along with the value.  THAT would be ideal
here (and cost a fortune too I suppose :-)  But anyway, lets see what you
got! :-)  Later
KRIS

> Hi Kris -
> 
> Nice job on the rack mockup.   Can I play, too?   I like the 
> idea of a 1U
> rack Evolver and...  I am the person that designed the front 
> panel graphics
> for the Evolver for Dave.  He was great to work with.  It 
> took about 40
> designs ( 4 itterations of 10 to 12 designs ) to get to the current
> production panel.  It was a real challenge to squeeze all 
> that stuff in -
> parameters, shift parameters, grouping borders..., but I feel 
> like it came
> out good.  It feels tweakable/playable/fun!    So, getting 
> all that stuff
> in a 1U rack panel would be the ultimate insanity, but I like a good
> challenge.  And, I'd love to have a Evo R.  Maybe if we came 
> up with a good
> enough design, we could convince Dave to go for it.  Hey, if 
> ya want people
> to buy five of em, a 1U rack would be the way to go.
> 
> It would be great to collaborate with some folks on it.    
> I'm into synth
> interface design and I like working with people.  I guess 
> what I should
> really do is SHUTUP and do some designs to toss in the circle.
> 
> Later - Robert Shanks
> Evolver #00007  - cool
> 
> >Yeah and I mean a 1U rack.  It'd be fine.  Its wider and 
> narrower, so I'm
> >sure it could be done.  I'll finish the mockup :-)
> >KRIS
> >
> >I said madness in one rack U, not 2. I stick by definine 
> madness as fitting
> >the words for 144 parameters into one rack
> >
> >
> >Why madness?  Just a different preference Ravi.  Personally 
> I had to hack a
> >way for Evo to fit into my studio by hanging it over the 
> rack containing my
> >MAQ16/3's with two sheetmetal brackets screwed into the 
> screws on the back
> >of Evo.  Not the best solution, BUT I have ZERO deskspace, 
> so for me, a rack
> >version is very appealing.  My rendering works fine except 
> that the matrix
> >labels would have to be quite small (and side-by-side for 
> the shift buttons
> >instead of over/under, but the knobs are farther apart so 
> that works ok),
> >but there are other solutions to that (like a pull-out card 
> you can slide
> >out of the panel when needed, etc.  I think it would work in 
> any case, esp.
> >considering 'rack' owners IMO tend to edit via software 
> (maybe I'm wrong
> >there? at least in my experience that's somewhat true).  But 
> in any case, it
> >isn't madness - just a different preference.
> >KRIS
> >
> >
> >> Heh, heh. That's a nice rendering job but I think that the
> >> idea is total
> >> madness, unless you made it a two rack space unit like the pulse.
> >>
> >> I think the most reasonable, doable and inexpensive 
> solution for you
> >> rackheads is to make a rack enclosure that puts the unit as
> >> is, into a rack,
> >> in much the same way as the rack fit for the Novation Nova.
> >>
> >> Ravi
> >>
> >> >Here's a mockup.
> >> >
> >> > http://www.stucki.com/krhen/downloads/evorack.jpg
> ><http://www.stucki.com/krhen/downloads/evorack.jpg>
> >> >
> >> >Note the problem becomes labelling the matrix.  Font would
> >> be pretty small
> >> >but it could be done I think (though I didn't want to take
> >> the time to type
> >> >in each parameter name now :-)  Looks kinda cool.  Dave??? :-)
> >> >KRIS
> >
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