Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Excellent points, Miles.  I feel better!  ;)  You're right, even when 
I think of only the presets I *didn't* program (so as not to be 
biased in my judgement), the Evolver really DOES have a very 
high "gems to junkers" ratio.  I think that having a large number of 
poor presets has killed the popularity and sales of a number of 
synths, including the OB·12.


Ski
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--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Miles Bader <miles@g...> wrote:
> "ski_ex5tech" <ex5tech@e...> writes:
> > Anyway, as it is, there are still quite a few presets in the 
Evolver
> > that are nothing more than slightly tweaked copies of other 
presets.
> > There are also some patches/sequences that are less than stellar 
by
> > almost anyone's judgement (and like I said, some of those are 
mine).
> 
> Yeah, but the Evolver's actually rather rare in that it has quite a 
few
> truly awesome presets -- soooo many great synths come _completely_
> filled up with presets that make them sound horrible (and it usually
> doesn't seem to take more than about 10 minutes of tweaking to make
> something better).
> 
> Anyway, I'm grateful for the less-than-stellar ones, as it's always 
a
> bit hard to delete a great preset to make room for one of my own 
lame
> patches...
> 
> > Dave has talked about upgrading the factory presets, and I expect 
that
> > will happen before too long.
> 
> Uh-oh, my lame patches are cowering...
> 
> -miles
> -- 
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