Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

had anyone tried this combo?  is the thunder so essentially 
polyphonic that it would be silly to do this?  i have never used a 
thunder, but i might have the opportuninty to aquire one.

deknow

Hi,

I am a Thunder player/owner and a Evolver owner but I've not connected
them. The main reason is indeed that the Thunder thrives on multi-timbral
boxes. The Thunder is much better suited for a device like a MicroWaveXT 
or (my personal favorite) a Yamaha TX802, or an Oberheim Xpander.

That said, the Thunder is also a great device for sending continuous control
messages so I could invision connecting it to the Evolver where every playing
key would be mapped to the Evolver and all the key gestures would be CCs
of some type to control the modulation sources on the Evolver.

Send me some e-mail off list if you get the Thunder and we can discuss it
in greater depth.

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "deknoww" <deknow@n...> wrote:

> had anyone tried this combo?  is the thunder so essentially 
> polyphonic that it would be silly to do this?  i have never used a 
> thunder, but i might have the opportuninty to aquire one.
> 
> deknow

>had anyone tried this combo?  is the thunder so essentially 
>polyphonic that it would be silly to do this?  i have never used a 
>thunder, but i might have the opportuninty to aquire one.

Thunder is much better used with a polyphonic synth that has lots of direct 
continuous controller hooks into the sound. It's SO versatile in that way that 
you have to know what you want to do with it, or it's useless. Does that make 
sense? 

Thunders don't always come to hand, and they have good resale value. 
Depending on what else you have to use it with, you might want to try one out simply 
because it's mind-expanding. You could set one up to play chords on a 
PolyEvolver that all make sense within a scale--yummy. So now you need a PolyEvolver 
too  ;-)

Just being a bad influence,

--Amanda
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