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Bug list

2007-04-10 by Bob

Hi Been reading people s messages about bugs and wondered if there was a bug list anywhere for the Evolvers? This isn t a complaint btw - I love my desktop

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Re: Poly Evolver Keyboard Questions

2007-04-10 by prophetvs

I would never consider using my PEK as a master controller, or any other value-holding analog... it would work fine, but if you wear it down over the years, it

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Re: Poly Evolver Keyboard Questions

2007-04-10 by prophetvs

I would never consider using my PEK as a master controller, or any other value-holding analog... it would work fine, but if you wear it down over the years, it

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Luggable Synth

2007-04-10 by William Soraparu

I travel alot....what would you suggest as far as a good synth goes......I have been using the Clavia 3 octave G2...but with how much it costs..I hate lugging

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Re: PEK Product

2007-04-10 by Miles Bader

... Likewise. Your combative style doesn t help your argument. -Miles -- In New York, most people don t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to

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output levels: mono vs. poly

2007-04-09 by acmcgowan

Hello all: I don t check in here too often because, frankly, I don t have the time. It s nice to see so many energetic discussions, even the critical ones.

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Introduction...

2007-04-09 by chisel316

Hi There! I just purchased an Evolver desktop model this weekend. I got a great deal on eBay, not to mention that the seller was a few miles from my house -

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Ron Boots / Groove Unlimited

... Dave s Support is second to none when it comes to speed and reliability. The few times we had problems with the numerous DSI s we sold is exemplarily for

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Dale (Inquisitor Betrayer)

the cc would be very cool I would then deal with much the same way as I do the ION now ... in the mean time, there are the editors ... need them automated to

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Matt Stanbro

I just had a great experience with support. I am actually pleasently suprised. It was enough before that they got back with me in a day but now they are really

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Ravi Ivan Sharma

But a minor error with a desktop evolver as opposed to fine working of all 3 other evolvers if a f*-up is still a little one, and that is why I agree with

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Desktop Evo controller keyboard problem

2007-04-09 by Ryan Hawkins

Hello, I just got a desktop evolver, but am having trouble getting a controller keyboard to do what I want it to do. Basically, right now, when I press a key

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-09 by James Elliott

Can we please give this subject a break. Dave Smith fucked up. Give it a rest - you can either accept it, pray to the god(s) in the heavens above that our

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[Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-09 by dodgingrain

Give me a break. It s in the PER manual that it chains with a desktop. If you claim it s a feature and you even put it in the manual you would think you

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-09 by William Soraparu

I have asked dave for the two encoders up by the display. I have heard nothing back from him so far. Bill From hawaii Miles Bader wrote: ...

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Miles Bader

... Apparently you weren t on this list in the pre-PEK/PER days (when there was a lot more traffic) -- there were many stories of Dave sending out _hardware_

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Re: PEK Product

2007-04-09 by Miles Bader

... In my experience it s very common for monosynths to have a hotter output than polysynths, and indeed it rather follows naturally from the need to allow

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Oxygen 8 + Evolver desktop

2007-04-09 by Everett

Hello to the group. I m new here and have owned a desktop Evolver since last August. Mine is version 3.0 I have a M-Audio Oxygen 8 midi controller which I use

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Re: [Evolver] Audio Modulating Video

2007-04-08 by Dale

yea that would be fine or you can hit my synth programming group as many there would be interested too... Synth_Programming@yahoogroups.com Odds are I would be

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by Dale

some things, can t be fixed with a OS update... hardware is needed ... Like the MS2000, timing issues with the arp .. sure they did a OS update and that took

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Audio Modulating Video

2007-04-08 by William Soraparu

Hi Dale, yeah, it is a bit left field for this forum...still want to discuss it mono on mono? Bill Dale wrote: Explain a bit more

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by Dale

wow They look and sound so good at NAMM ... well, like I said and experience, no 100% synth have I seen ... even Moogs .. Nord is usualy near the Moog booth at

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by William Soraparu

Hey Julian....whats understood does not need to be discussed. I will not honor your mail here with a reply...other than for what I just said. Mahalo mr julian

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by mr julian

... So that pretty much means that with your xtk.... 1) you ve never set a sound to mono mode and played or sequenced legato lines. 2) you ve never used it as

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-08 by Matt Stanbro

I was having issues with the HPF filter on my MED, Which by the way I am fairly certain is a design flaw. It seems that the HPF will generate quite a bit of

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by William Soraparu

I have no problems with the MQ and the encoders.....guess I was born under a lucky star Yutaka Nakamura wrote: ... Yeah, no kiddin . Q

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by William Soraparu

I do not need to troll...my XTK has never burped...knock on wood....Q has been a good boy as well... mr julian wrote: ...

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by William Soraparu

I have the Nord G2X and 2 Nord Leads...no issues James Elliott wrote: ahhh... the nord wave that looks pretty promising!

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by Yutaka Nakamura

... Yeah, no kiddin . Q was even worse, wasn t it? I need to have the nearly-dead encoders on my microQ - all six of them - soon.... -Yutaka

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by mr julian

... hahahahaha!! you own and use an XTk, and you re compaining about PEK firmware updates? Ok. you can finish trolling the list now. ... julian

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-08 by James Elliott

ahhh... the nord wave that looks pretty promising! HOWEVER I ve had 3 nord lead 2x s and I ve had to return all of them for some pretty shitty issues...

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by William Soraparu

Thanks Dale, I will tune in! I have only owned one yamaha and that was a DX-7...never had any problems with it... Oh yes....I have 3 Clavia units...never any

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by William Soraparu

I asked Dave Smith yesterday to send me two encoders for my system. Lets see if he sends them to me. Funny, I have never had a problem with my Moog, Access,

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Dale

Add Yamaha A5000, A4000 and A3000 to encoders with problems. due to dust... ION s are potentiometers, they fail .. OS update helped a bit to control .. but it

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Ravi Ivan Sharma

Every synth that I have had that has encoders, has had ones that eventuall flake out or start skipping, often earlier than wished. These include: uQ keyboard,

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by William Soraparu

Its okay for a system to have limitations....but when encoders act flaky after a few months...and lots of folks have mentioned they have than problem...it

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Re: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by William Soraparu

Why should I fix something that is less than 12 months old? I have Waldorf, Access, Moog and Korg systems...as well as a huge Analog system.....its

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by William Soraparu

I ve been working with synthesizers since I was 15.....I know how to use them. I do not think or feel based on my experience that Dave Smith s PEK lives up to

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Ravi Ivan Sharma

Continually complaining that the Evolver Desktop is louder than the PER. Pity. Complaining about an extra feature that is essentially a freebee. I cannot

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Re: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Dale

I am not aware of any synth that does not have a problem of some kind... each one here, has it own bug list, quirk, work around or something that should as

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Re: [Evolver] Re: PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Dale

If the plugs are such a pain and you need those outs in the manner you mention, why not mod it? I bet he just has it switched with the jacks. I would not

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Dale

I am not sure what functions that don t work are all that useful to what I do anyway ... Mine was a bit more in dollar but so far I have no regrets ... I

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Re: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Dale

I was wondering ... If Dave does not support this, then why is he at every NAMM with the PEKs, racks and most of the time in the booth listening to god awful

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Re: SV: [Evolver] PEK Product

2007-04-07 by Robert Krueger

... Dave Smith gives amazing support. When I had my MED for about 8 months, I was getting distortion very easily and found if I unplugged and replugged the

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