Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

You know what you're talking about?

While the Tetra has its own RAM for each Combo part, the PEK had not. Combos 
in the PEK contained only pointers to single programs, therefore saving a 
combo part would have overwritten the single program and simultaneously 
changed all other combos that used the same program.

Physical RAM can't be created by an OS update ;)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Elliott" <johans121@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [DSI Synths] Why no rest on sequencer 2?


AHAHAAHAHAH! ARE YOU F'ING SERIOUS!?!

When people asked DSI to incorporate that in the PolyEvolvers he said flat 
out
that he didn't want to incorporate anything like that in the the OS's 
because
people may make mistakes, or get confused, when saving their changes. I 
think it
is absolutely insane that he would flat out say that about a current product 
and
then incorporate those changes in a new *different* product. ESPECIALLY when 
the
code is probably more than likely mostly portable from one DSI synth to the
next. Unbelievable.

After hearing this, I will no longer purchase a new DSI product again. 
Seriously
Ravi, thank you for bringing that to light. You drove in the final nail for 
me.
Oh and btw I actually liked a number of patches on the evolver series. Good
work!

-Jim





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From: Ravi Ivan Sharma <noision1@...>
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 10:41:54 AM
Subject: Re: [DSI Synths] Why no rest on sequencer 2?


the tetra allows this. I love it.


On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Brain wrote:


>You can't save individual patch when you are in combo mode with PEK ?
>Really ? This is crazy...
>
>The only synth i've seen doing well with patch and combo is Nord Modular
>G2. Clavia find the smartest solution : a combo store all the patch data
>in it's own memory. All the 4 patch in it's own memory ! Like that you
>can tweak all you want to tweak, everything is saved in this combo and
>you don't erase original patch.
>
>And you know what ? It's fucking cool. You don't have to think about "oh
>my go maybe i'm erasing a good patch". It's the way to go, but i never
>see that again in any modern synth. Weird.
>
>By the way, i like the idea to pay someone to have a new OS, it's fare
>for the both side. DSI take some times to work on it, and we pay for the
>work. Fare. 50 euros ? OK go ! I love this synth so mutch, it's not a
>problem.
>