Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Nice one Paul.

Good review, no surprises from anything that hasn't been discussed on this
list, but now its' official in respectable review form: The Evolver Kicks
Ass.

Paul even departed from longstanding SOS policy and gave the Evoler a
Platinum Key Buy Award!

JUST KIDDING! But he did say:

"[Evolver] represents one of the happiest marriages of analogue and digital
technology I've encountered."

"What really counts is the Evolver's sound and sound-mangling potential, and
there is an almost indecent range of options to handle both."

"When listening to some of the factory sequences playing four-part harmonies
and the like, I did occasional double-takes, and needed to remind myself
this was 'only' a monophonic instrument."

"[T]hose twin audio inputs, delay lines, and the many different ways to
transform a harmless signal into a heart-rending wail of terror make this
one mean mother of an audio processor."

I'm interested to know what are the bad points in this review.



on 17/01/03 3:42 PM, Ravi Ivan Sharma at noision1@... wrote:

Nice one Paul.

Good review, no surprises from anything that hasn't been discussed on this
list, but now its' official in respectable review form: The Evolver Kicks
Ass.

Paul even departed from longstanding SOS policy and gave the Evoler a
Platinum Key Buy Award!

JUST KIDDING! But he did say:

"[Evolver] represents one of the happiest marriages of analogue and digital
technology I've encountered."

"What really counts is the Evolver's sound and sound-mangling potential, and
there is an almost indecent range of options to handle both."

"When listening to some of the factory sequences playing four-part harmonies
and the like, I did occasional double-takes, and needed to remind myself
this was 'only' a monophonic instrument."

"[T]hose twin audio inputs, delay lines, and the many different ways to
transform a harmless signal into a heart-rending wail of terror make this
one mean mother of an audio processor."

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Nothing really. basically what we have already discussed on this 
list. A request for midi notes to move the sequencer along. A request 
for the waves in osc3 and osc4 to be mod matrix destinations. A minor 
quibble about the matrix editing rather than a myriad of knobs, 
despite acknowledging that such was certainly expected given the 
inexpensive price.

The biggest most bitter complaint was with not the Evolver but the UK 
duty and VAT. Oh well, there must be something good about living in 
UK though . . :)

Ravi

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, simon leclerc <bontrip@v...> 
wrote:
> I'm interested to know what are the bad points in this review.
> 
> 
> 
> on 17/01/03 3:42 PM, Ravi Ivan Sharma at noision1@h... wrote:
> 
> Nice one Paul.
> 
> Good review, no surprises from anything that hasn't been discussed 
on this
> list, but now its' official in respectable review form: The Evolver 
Kicks
> Ass.
> 
> Paul even departed from longstanding SOS policy and gave the Evoler 
a
> Platinum Key Buy Award!
> 
> JUST KIDDING! But he did say:
> 
> "[Evolver] represents one of the happiest marriages of analogue and 
digital
> technology I've encountered."
> 
> "What really counts is the Evolver's sound and sound-mangling 
potential, and
> there is an almost indecent range of options to handle both."
> 
> "When listening to some of the factory sequences playing four-part 
harmonies
> and the like, I did occasional double-takes, and needed to remind 
myself
> this was 'only' a monophonic instrument."
> 
> "[T]hose twin audio inputs, delay lines, and the many different 
ways to
> transform a harmless signal into a heart-rending wail of terror 
make this

> one mean mother of an audio processor."
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor   ADVERTISEMENT
>   
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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> 
> 
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:13:06 -0000, "Ravi Ivan Sharma
<noision1@...>" <noision1@...> wrote:

>The biggest most bitter complaint was with not the Evolver but the UK 
>duty and VAT. Oh well, there must be something good about living in 
>UK though . . :)

I'd love to know what it is. I'm planning to leave and move to
somewhere that *wants* to be part of Europe....

As for cons - I could only think of "lack of a headphone socket", and
the typical ones about the matrix and display - all of which we know
the reasons for already.

I've had a lot of good gear recently - is it my perception or is stuff
getting better generally?

Paul

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:33:38 -0500, "Ravi Sharma"
<noision1@...> wrote:

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>
><div style='background-color:'><P>�>I've had a lot of good gear recently - is it my perception or is stuff </P>
><P>>getting better generally? </P>
><P>>Paul </P>
><P>My thoughts exactly. I like synths (an understatement) and although when I was young, just about anything over a grand was almost too expensive for me to do more than just dream about. These days, nearly 20 years later, things are quite different financially. So I have quite a, er, group of synths, but�do not want to be a collector of any synth just for the synth of it,�so bought�most used, and always with an eye to quality and some distinguishing quality/characteristics and a great deal. Over the years it adds up! minimoog, pulse, MW1, wavestation, k5000, fs1r, jp8080, uQk, mc505, XL7, ASR-X, ( I always liked grooveboxes) Fizmo,�Notron�and PC88 about sums it up. Oh yeah! 2 Evolvers! Most of the time I have been able to identify "special" instruments and�wait for the bargains, and then�pounce�and not be taken by anything just because it was new or latest greatest, etc. These days, I try to enforce the "if anything comes in, something must

Sorry, can't read most of this - seems like it's in HTML or some such
gibberish.... 80

Paul

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Paul Nagle <paul@s...> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:33:38 -0500, "Ravi Sharma"
> <noision1@h...> wrote:
> 
> ><html>
> >
> ><div style='background-color:'><P> >I've had a lot of 
good gear recently - is it my perception or is stuff </P>
> ><P>>getting better generally? </P>
> ><P>>Paul </P>
> ><P>My thoughts exactly. I like synths (an understatement) and 
although when I was young, just about anything over a grand was 
almost too expensive for me to do more than just dream about. These 
days, nearly 20 years later, things are quite different financially. 
So I have quite a, er, group of synths, but do not want to be a 
collector of any synth just for the synth of it, so 
bought most used, and always with an eye to quality and some 
distinguishing quality/characteristics and a great deal. Over the 
years it adds up! minimoog, pulse, MW1, wavestation, k5000, fs1r, 
jp8080, uQk, mc505, XL7, ASR-X, ( I always liked grooveboxes) 
Fizmo, Notron and PC88 about sums it up. Oh yeah! 2 
Evolvers! Most of the time I have been able to identify "special" 
instruments and wait for the bargains, and 
then pounce and not be taken by anything just because it 
was new or latest greatest, etc. These days, I try to enforce 
the "if anything comes in, something must
> 
> Sorry, can't read most of this - seems like it's in HTML or some 
such
> gibberish.... 80
> 
> Paul

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