Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

HI everybody,
I bought a beautifull brand new PEK a few weeks ago, enjoyed its 
wonderfull rich and deep sound until I discovered that with some 
factory patches, I couldn't use the HPF together with Distortion 
without hearing an horrible digital noise & distortion. For example, 
if I try to edit the Patch 10 Bank 1, I can tweak the HPF or the 
Distortion parameters alone but if I try to use both (even at a 
setting of 1 for the HPF and 2 for the Distortion), then I just get 
an awfull digital noise/distortion which is as loud as the "normal" 
patch sound!!
I'm currently in relation with DSI Support, but I'd like to know if 
someone already experienced this issue (or others) with their PEK 
before. My PEK is certainly an early one because its serial number is 
only a two digits one... Its firmware versions are:
Main   v1.00
Voice  v2.00
DSP    v3.00. (You can know this by pressing the Reset button 
together with button 1 from the keypad.)
Another question: The Clip LED is only relevant for the Voice 1 on my 
PEK. The 3 other voices never drive it. Is it the same for you all?
Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Sylvain Dumortier

Yes I have this problem too. On my mono desktop evolver the HPF is
very noisy when engaged and this problem is compounded when using the
distortion. Let me know if you want me to contact DSI support to back
you up on this and let me know what their solution is - I'd like to
get this fixed but had assumed it must have been a programming problem
since the HPF is digital.

Justin Mullins

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "sdumor" <sdumor@...> wrote:

>
> HI everybody,
> I bought a beautifull brand new PEK a few weeks ago, enjoyed its 
> wonderfull rich and deep sound until I discovered that with some 
> factory patches, I couldn't use the HPF together with Distortion 
> without hearing an horrible digital noise & distortion. For example, 
> if I try to edit the Patch 10 Bank 1, I can tweak the HPF or the 
> Distortion parameters alone but if I try to use both (even at a 
> setting of 1 for the HPF and 2 for the Distortion), then I just get 
> an awfull digital noise/distortion which is as loud as the "normal" 
> patch sound!!
> I'm currently in relation with DSI Support, but I'd like to know if 
> someone already experienced this issue (or others) with their PEK 
> before. My PEK is certainly an early one because its serial number is 
> only a two digits one... Its firmware versions are:
> Main   v1.00
> Voice  v2.00
> DSP    v3.00. (You can know this by pressing the Reset button 
> together with button 1 from the keypad.)
> Another question: The Clip LED is only relevant for the Voice 1 on my 
> PEK. The 3 other voices never drive it. Is it the same for you all?
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> Sylvain Dumortier
>

Hi Justin,
why didn't you report this issue to DSI?
Well, I paid about 2000 Euros for this synth which is definitly a great 
synth but in my opinion, this issue is a big one. It's just impossible 
to HPF and distort some patches and this is a big limitation. If it is 
implemented, it must work, no?
Another grief is that a bunch of encoders are already jumpy: it's 
impossible to use precisely some of them: when I turn them up they can 
go backward or jump 3 or 5 steps!
This synth is really a killer: deep, warm, rich, powerfull but those 
issues are really disappointing for a more than 2000 Euros piece of 
gear!
I'll write you what they'll tell me to do...

Regards,
Sylvain Dumortier



--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "justmullaya" <justmull@...> wrote:

>
> Yes I have this problem too. On my mono desktop evolver the HPF is
> very noisy when engaged and this problem is compounded when using the
> distortion. Let me know if you want me to contact DSI support to back
> you up on this and let me know what their solution is - I'd like to
> get this fixed but had assumed it must have been a programming problem
> since the HPF is digital.
> 
> Justin Mullins