Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Let's face it. In this day and age its what limits us, not enables us, that creates good music. Seriously, you have NO OTHER WAY to create a sequence to send to outboard gear? Is it THAT difficult to recreate the bassline you programmed on the Evolver to send to another synth? I just don't believe it.

What DSI has going for it is that Dave has some sort of vision for his instruments. I don't feel he's ever just tried to rip off Moog or whatever. He builds things he wants to use. For the most part, I agree with his choices. Sure, there are things I wish the Evolver could do (at this point, mostly that my rotary encoders wouldn't jump), but what I respect is the insane amounts of flexibility already included in the modulation sources - for that matter that has always been included in Smith Products (Seq Circuits, DSI, Wavestation, whatever).

Yes, the Evolver is not a Fantom Workstation, nor is it a swiss army knife. It does what it does and I am thankful for it.

I'd rather Mr. Smith spend his time engineering a next generation synthesizer than patching the software for a synth thats basically a decade old.

j

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, James Elliott <johans121@...> wrote:
>
> I think it would go without saying that if a manufacturer were to open up the 
> code to the public then the company would not support the altered product. I 
> don't know of any software company that has, so why would we expect DSI to? I 
> think opening up the software to the public would be a great idea. I'm totally 
> with Tom in that I would be a DSI customer for 'life' if they did something like 
> that. Hell, DSI could even make some spare change selling chips with the 
> original OS on it if people F'ed up their code so bad that they couldn't even 
> revert back to the original code base.
> 
> But whatever, I don't expect this to happen. This code is more than likely on 
> all of his products, so he wouldn't want his competitors stealing his 
> intellectual property.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Stefan Trippler <doct@...>
> To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 5:57:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [DSI Synths] DSI Evolution?
> 
>   
> > In a synth world where it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate 
> > your product from the next
> > guy's, open source software is one thing that could really set you apart. 
> > How about it, Dave?
> 
> This might indeed bring a few new customers. But most likely not enough to 
> cover the cost of the additional people for the manufacturer's support 
> department.
> 
> Or do you really think that customers wouldn't expect support from the 
> manufacturer for a third party OS or would not blame him for problems caused 
> by 3rd party OSs?
> 
> "Hey, Dave, OS 0.1 beta from well known list member X adds a lot of 
> fantastic features to the PEK. Unfortunately it causes my PEK to 
> occasionally freeze and sysex transfer to downgrade to an older OS was 
> promised only for version 0.2.
> X unfortunately doesn't reply to my mails atm, I think he is on holiday / 
> didn't pay his provider / is a little distracted after his divorce/his pet's 
> passing/his boyfriend's unexpected pregnancy / can't be bothered with bug 
> reports atm cause he's already developing another set of fantastic addons / 
> ...
> 
> So I thought that DSI could help for once. I suppose it takes only a few 
> minutes to recompile, interpret and debug his uncommented C++ code" ;)
> 
> Things like that have never happened in the past and will never happen in 
> the future.
> 

etc etc etc