Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi,

I was just about to send this to DSI support, but maybe here also  
somebody has an idea...?

I just bought a PEK and received it today.

When playing it, I noticed that the 4th voice sounds a bit different  
than the others... I checked with the "Basic Program" in memory slot  
128 and solo'd each oscillator. It seems like OSC 1 of the first  
voice would have a problem - when playing the same key four times in  
a row (with OSC 1 L solo'd), I don't hear anything (or just a very  
soft signal) when the LEDs on the right side of the Evolver indicate  
that the 4th voice is used.

The other three OSCs don't behave like that, they play on every voice.

I sent out 1/4th notes from my software sequencer at Velocity 127 and  
recorded the Evolver's audio output with Basic Program 128. I made  
sure that the first note is always played by the 1st voice.
There are 2 files - one with all OSCs of the Basic Program patch and  
one with OSC 1 solo'd.
I don't have any of the single voice outputs on the backside of the  
Evolver connected, just the stereo main out.

Ip uploaded the recorded audio files to my website, so if anybody's  
interested...:

http://www.unterwassermusik.de/evolver.zip


Do you have any idea...? Is this a hardware failure...?



thanks & greetings,

Tom

Hi,

I was just about to send this to DSI support, but maybe here also somebody has an idea...?

I just bought a PEK and received it today.

When playing it, I noticed that the 4th voice sounds a bit different than the others... I 
checked with the "Basic Program" in memory slot 128 and solo'd each oscillator. It seems 
like OSC 1 of the first voice would have a problem - when playing the same key four times 
in a row (with OSC 1 L solo'd), I don't hear anything (or just a very soft signal) when the 
LEDs on the right side of the Evolver indicate that the 4th voice is used.

The other three OSCs don't behave like that, they play on every voice.

I sent out 1/4th notes from my software sequencer at Velocity 127 and recorded the 
Evolver's audio output with Basic Program 128. I made sure that the first note is always 
played by the 1st voice.
There are 2 files - one with all OSCs of the Basic Program patch and one with OSC 1 solo'd.
I don't have any of the single voice outputs on the backside of the Evolver connected, just 
the stereo main out.

Ip uploaded the recorded audio files to my website, so if anybody's interested...:

http://www.unterwassermusik.de/evolver.zip


Do you have any idea...? Is this a hardware failure...?



thanks & greetings,

Tom

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "sphynxxengine" <mailinglists@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I was just about to send this to DSI support, but maybe here also somebody has an 
idea...?
> 
> I just bought a PEK and received it today.
> 
> When playing it, I noticed that the 4th voice sounds a bit different than the others... I 
> checked with the "Basic Program" in memory slot 128 and solo'd each oscillator.

> Do you have any idea...? Is this a hardware failure...?
> 

Based on hearing your sound files, I would come to the same conclusion that it is some 
kind of hardware issue. I can't think of any setting in software under program mode that 
would make this occur. Perhaps one of the connections on that mono-evolver voice card 
came loose, or worse, got knocked. I would not be one to know what the heck is going on 
inside the PEK, but I do know that it's based on four mono-evolvers running off four 
separate evolver cards, so maybe you will only need to part with just the one, or Dave 
might have some other elegant solution... Sorry I could not help any more.
-Mok

"haventwoncrap" <spano@...> writes:
> I would not be one to know what the heck is going on inside the PEK,
> but I do know that it's based on four mono-evolvers running off four
> separate evolver cards

"Architecturally" the PEK is 4 mono evolvers, but they are not on
separate cards.

[Open it up and look, it's quite easy compared to many synths -- you
don't even have to move it off its stand, a couple of screws and the
whole front-panel tilts up.]

-Miles
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