Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hey, all.  I think I may have the noise bug that some have complained 
about with the Evolver, where above certain osc levels an 
intermittent, unwanted noise is introduced that doesn't seem to be 
related to any other parameters.  If I turn the HPF value way up, the 
noise goes away, but it's otherwise quite persistent.  However, this 
doesn't seem to happen on the presets, so I'm wondering if I might 
just be paranoid - does anyone know of a specific approach to test if 
the evolver has this bug, or specifically what causes it?  I thought 
I'd ask here before bothering Dave.  Thanks much.

Alex

On 12/12/02 10:02 AM, "Alex <afrorouge@...>" <afrorouge@...>
wrote:

> does anyone know of a specific approach to test if
> the evolver has this bug, or specifically what causes it?  I thought
> I'd ask here before bothering Dave.  Thanks much.

someone could just send out a patch which is known to induce the bug, so
that everyone can test their machine...

}:-)


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It appears I am suffering the same fate. I was tweaking a patch from an
init sound last night and started hearing what sounds like static (the
best way I can describe it). I only had the 2 analog osc (no digital)
and some filter adjusted when I noticed it. I could semi eliminate it by
adjusting the analog  osc levels down below 50 and sometimes making the
resonace value very low would eliminate it, but you could tell it was
definitely not there. Think I will send this along to Dave as well and
see what the response is.

Thanks,
Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex <afrorouge@...> [mailto:afrorouge@...] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:03 PM
> To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Evolver] Noise bug - a concrete way to test?
> 
> 
> Hey, all.  I think I may have the noise bug that some have complained 
> about with the Evolver, where above certain osc levels an 
> intermittent, unwanted noise is introduced that doesn't seem to be 
> related to any other parameters.  If I turn the HPF value way up, the 
> noise goes away, but it's otherwise quite persistent.  However, this 
> doesn't seem to happen on the presets, so I'm wondering if I might 
> just be paranoid - does anyone know of a specific approach to test if 
> the evolver has this bug, or specifically what causes it?  I thought 
> I'd ask here before bothering Dave.  Thanks much.
> 
> Alex

Finally had a chance to play around with my evolver, woo hoo! I received it 
a couple of weeks ago, but was busy with finals.

One thing I'd like to compliment Dave on is the ergonomics. It is very fast 
to navigate around the various parameters, and it just about fits in the hand.

I wish the power cord was longer (very minor nit though) . To hook mine up, 
I wound up zip-tying all of the cords (audio I/O and MIDI) together. I can 
either set it on my qear rack or put it on the desk to work with. The power 
cord is too short to do this though. I suppose I can extend the power cord, 
I just need to get out the soldering iron and some adequate wire.


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  Ken Luke                              ken_luke@...
   "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard." -Edmund Keane
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Cut the cord Ken and give us your review ;)


on 16/12/02 6:35 PM, Ken Luke at ken_luke@... wrote:

Finally had a chance to play around with my evolver, woo hoo! I received it
a couple of weeks ago, but was busy with finals.

One thing I'd like to compliment Dave on is the ergonomics. It is very fast
to navigate around the various parameters, and it just about fits in the
hand.

I wish the power cord was longer (very minor nit though) . To hook mine up,
I wound up zip-tying all of the cords (audio I/O and MIDI) together. I can
either set it on my qear rack or put it on the desk to work with. The power
cord is too short to do this though. I suppose I can extend the power cord,
I just need to get out the soldering iron and some adequate wire.


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 Ken Luke                              ken_luke@...
  "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard." -Edmund Keane
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