New Evolvee / Feature ideas
2003-04-29 by pela_gius
Hey Evolvees (what's the proper term for evolver users?), I became a proud Evolver owner yesterday. But it's defective so I'm waiting to recieve a new board tomorrow :( Anyway the suspense has been killing me and I've been reading the list archives in the meantime. A couple of cool features occurred to me and I thought I'd throw them out there. Some people have mentioned using Midi notes to advance the sequencer but I haven't seen anyone mention the idea of addressing the sequence steps by Midi note like a Serge TKB. One way I thought this might work is to have step 13 of sequence 1 include an parameter after reset called KBD. This would limit all 4 sequences to 12 steps. Playing middle C would trigger step 1, and so-on up through the 12 notes of the octave. Playing in other octaves would transpose the sequence up or down octaves. This would allow you to program arbitrary scales or program different chords to trigger from each note. My second thought would be a range switch for the 2 digital oscillators. If you could switch the digital waveforms to be clocked at a very low rate and use them as modulation sources they would make very interesting lfos and even allow pseudo-sequences. This would allow user-loaded waveforms to include quite long user-programmed note sequences (what are there, 128 samples per wave?). I'm not quite sure how and if this would work within the architecture of the Evolver but I'm basing the idea on the Wiard/Blacet Miniwave module which is very useful as a digital oscillator / complex modulation source / quantizer / digital distortion / etc. I hope it's not too presumptuous to request features before actually spending any time with the Evolver but the waiting and anticipation have left me thinking. I'd be interested to hear any problems with, variations on, or improvements of these ideas. Thanks. Morgan