another one!
2002-12-09 by mr julian
Well, today I finally got the evolver I've been waiting for. (SN#151) I spent all day at work peering into the box and wanting to be home. Anyway - now it's 1:15am and I've been playing with it most of the night, and I've got to say that I'm very impressed with how it sounds and the stuff it can do. In real life its so much better than the mp3's sounded.... Tweaking the sounds as they play is heaps more fun! So far, I've noticed the feedback section really seems to be the key to getting a nice thick sound out of it consistently. Especially using a mod path to get seq1 changing the feedback frequency "in tune" with the main sequence melody. Overall I find the user interface is pretty good, and I *really* like that it uses endless rotaries, and the fact that the first movement of a knob just shows you the current value, rather than jumping in and messing with the sound immediately.. I think that will be a big help in working out how all the good patches sound so good. Though I really want to 2nd the request of whoever asked for a mod destination of wave shape for the two digital oscillators...... I think if just one improvement gets made to the existing evolver design, that'd be the one to do. That would give a way to have wave sweeping when you're just playing via MIDI, with no clock. A very useful feature, I think. Oh - and any chance of a random patch generator like the prophet VS? (maybe not for the sequencer section though... uggh....) or would it be easier just to wait for the computer based patch editors to get written with this feature in them? Anyway - off to bed now, as much as I'd rather stay up all night..... the evolver sure doesn't need any beauty sleep, but unfortunately I do. julian