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Re: [Evolver] MEK to Desktop evo - can they polychain? how 'bout 2?

2007-08-19 by James Elliott

You can polychain all of the evolver products with each other. If you want to polychain a MEK with 15 desktops, then so be it.

at $1000 for the MEK and $400 for each desktop it is cheaper to just pick up a PEK at $1800 - 2000 for 4 voices. And believe it or not it will take up less room than 1 MEK and 3 DEVOs, when you take into consideration the placement of 3 additional devices compared to 1 and all of the cables you will have hooked up to all of these things (audio cables, midi cables (for poly), and power cables). Personally that solution sounds like a big pain in the ass. I would recommend just getting a PEK or a MEK + PER.

Or buy the Prophet '08....

-Jim

----- Original Message ----
From: earl_epstein
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:58:14 PM
Subject: [Evolver] MEK to Desktop evo - can they polychain? how 'bout 2?

Sorry for asking.. I seem to remember people dealing with this months
ago, but I searched the group and can't find an answer.

I have a MEK and a desktop evo - any advice to polychain the two? (can
it be done) Also, I like the size of the MEK and am thinking that
with desktop evos so cheap now, two or three polychained to an MEK is
small, gives redundancy, and achieves much of what a PEK does...that
is IFFFFFF you can polychain 2 evo desktops to a MEK.

Help? :)

Hey, one more crazy question.. has anyone come up with a midi to SD
(or mini or micro) card device that will allow you to save all the
patches on a box like an evo and move the sounds from one box to
another (or have super quick patch changes on the road) ?

Hope you're all having fun bleeping and tripping ;)

Earl

Oh an odd PS for those who might care, I picked up a Creamware ASB Pro
12 - the hardware emulation of the prophet 5 - hoping it would get
some extra pro 5 magic. The magic is in the evolver...no doubt about it.



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