Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

easy portabillity,
if you can bring along a pek touring or playing live, i guess there is 
still room in the car/van  to bring along a per, its not that a pek fits 
in a suitcase and easy bring a long on tour or something when traveling 
with a bus or train etc
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> Even your  dinosaur 80's synths have 6 voices, indeed.
> But do they have a hybrid osc generator, 4 lfo's, envelope generators, 
> 4 4x16 step squencers, a complex modulation matrix, 3 syncable delays, 
> feedback, hack (... should i go on...?).
> So yeah, it's short on polyphony - but don't compare it to your 80's 
> dinosaur synths, since it beats them on all the other departments.
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> --- On *Thu, 3/11/10, wasteking1 /<wasteking1@...>/* wrote:
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>     From: wasteking1 <wasteking1@...>
>     Subject: Re: [DSI Synths] DSI - "no to 4 voice PEK upgrade"
>     To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
>     Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 3:00 PM
>
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>     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
>     <http://us.mc306.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=DSI_Evolver%40yahoogroups.com>,
>     "meatballfulton" <hubcapbrian@ ...> wrote:
>     >
>     > --- In DSI_Evolver@ yahoogroups. com
>     <http://us.mc306.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=DSI_Evolver%40yahoogroups.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?
>     >
>     > 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).
>     >
>     > > How many people would like 8 voices???? (even my dinosaur 80's
>     > > synths have 6)
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > 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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