Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

a seperate expansion unit sounds fine in theory,maybe good for the hiding-in-the-studio-types  but is of little live  convienience,  and totally kills easy  portability--- as i said before--LOOK INSIDE THE PEK--- its HALF EMPTY--- plenty of room for more voice circuits   --- even on a modular  plug-in/add on  basis.  (2 at a time?) even  just 6 voices would keep me from having a dropout problem while simply playing one program with two hands.and certainly it limits what kind things you can do with partial 'unison' voice allocations. .  Obviously DSI considered 8  fine for the  CHEAPER Prophet---why not their 'flagship' model?  Its a real shortcoming in the marketplace.

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "meatballfulton" <hubcapbrian@...> wrote:
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> --- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "wasteking1" <wasteking1@> wrote:
> > How come the PEK pot version could be so quickly adapted? 
> > how many people asked DSI for it or ws it just Dave's idea? 
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> Based on all the complaints about encoders I've seen in Evo discussions, it must have been a LOT of people asking for it. Dave obviously likes the encoders (as do I).
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> > How many people would like 8 voices???? (even my dinosaur 80's 
> > synths have 6)
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> Poly expansion leaves the option up to the end user, the people who want the extra voices can buy them. While it's not as convenient as having all 8 voices onboard the PEK, MEK and DEVO users can also make use of it.
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> I've heard similar complaints about hooking up a Mopho keyboard to a Tetra, and the Mopho keyboard hasn't even been released yet!!!
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