Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

+1 for the Evolver.
And I agree the digital oscillators can be beautiful.
I had a Prophet for a while, but kept coming back to the Evolver because the kind of monophonic patches I made on it could be reproduced on the Evolver, and then some!
Such a full featured little synth, with so many colours. It's quite handily laid out too if you don't mind 'shift' functions.
In that respect, the Mopho Keyboard looks like one his most refined designs yet. You can now edit oscillators simultaneously, rather than adjusting things like 'glide' (portamento) for each separate oscillator.

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, dustin sedlacek <dustin.sedlacek@...> wrote:
>
> I have an Evolver and I love it, the triple tap delay is great, the feedback
> is amazing, the digital oscillators are capable of amazing things.
> 
> 
> I use the evolver as a programmable effects processor.
> 3 delay lines
> distortion
> high pass filter
> low pass filter with distortion
> 
> Modulate the VCA with a digital oscillator for amplitude modulation ( sounds
> exactly like ring modulation but mathematically it is different)
> 
> Use an LFO to modulate the feedback amount and frequency for a close flanger
> effect
> 
> Use the gate extractor so that you can trigger the sequencer with your
> guitar
> 
> Use the envelope follower on the filter or even better the delay time.
> 
> Make almost anything sound like a circuit bent beast with the input/output
> hack parameter.
> 
> Modulate the distortion amount with an LFO
> 
> many many many things are possible with the evolver.
> 
> oh and it can do everything the mopho can do ( except the sub oscillators
> would be digital on the evolver)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM, wasteking1 <wasteking1@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > every synth has its "voice'--its personality. You really have to try a few
> > to feel out the diffrences. You might just simply love one over another.I
> > would say ive heard lame analog sounds and amazingly full digital ones. most
> > of that comes from the programming. I liked how the evolver series gives you
> > a digital/anaolg choice--- most sounds can usually benefit from a mix of the
> > 2 types to sound fuller, but this is up to you as programmer.
> >
> >
> > --- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com <DSI_Evolver%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "mobyturbo" <joshua613@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm interested in picking up a new synth in a few months, but am not
> > certain if it should be a used desktop evolver or the desktop mopho, or
> > perhaps a mopho keyboard. Can you get good analog sounds out of the
> > evolver's analog circuits? What is the digital good for besides "industrial"
> > and other harsher sounds?
> > >
> > > (I don't really have much experience with synths, though I do a lot of
> > experimentation with my microkorg and with my computer, I think I should get
> > the real thing.)
> > >
> > > Sorry for the newbie questions and what might be a controversial topic.
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Dustin
>