Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

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From: Robert Shanks

To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:44 PM

Subject: RE: [Evolver] How's this? was: rackmount evolver?

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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