Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi all,
           I am curious to find out people's experiences with stacking the evolver.  I currently have my MEK stacked with a Novation Super Bass Station and an Alesis NanoBass.  I find the Novation's arpeggiator rocks with the evolver's sequencers and the Alesis spares me having to always add bass to the evo and SBS (It also doubles as a fake bass).
   I have also stacked it with an Access Virus B and the sound is almost too good to be true.  The only drawback is that the Virus is a bit cramped on the MEKs keyboard (especially when splitting the registers).  
   Oh, and I've gotten some crazy sounds by pairing it up with a Red Sound Dark Star, but the Dark Star gets a little buzzy and underwhelming after a while.

I am wondering if anybody has found a 'perfect compliment' (or maybe antithesis) to the MEK.  And why?

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "mrandyman73" <mrandyman73@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>            I am curious to find out people's experiences with stacking the evolver.  I currently have my MEK stacked with a Novation Super Bass Station and an Alesis NanoBass.  I find the Novation's arpeggiator rocks with the evolver's sequencers and the Alesis spares me having to always add bass to the evo and SBS (It also doubles as a fake bass).
>    I have also stacked it with an Access Virus B and the sound is almost too good to be true.  The only drawback is that the Virus is a bit cramped on the MEKs keyboard (especially when splitting the registers).  
>    Oh, and I've gotten some crazy sounds by pairing it up with a Red Sound Dark Star, but the Dark Star gets a little buzzy and underwhelming after a while.
> 
> I am wondering if anybody has found a 'perfect compliment' (or maybe antithesis) to the MEK.  And why?
>

I do the opposite:  pair an Access Virus Indigo with a DEK.  One of them has a reputation for being "too dark" and the other has a reputation for being "too harsh".  Played together, it sounds like you got your peanut butter in my chocolate.

If I could do it all over again, I probably would have gone MEK and TI desktop.  But I was four or five years too early and a couple of thousand dollars short.

Hmm. I've been using one OR the other. I have an MEK and EVO and Virus
TI Desktop. I must hear how using an Evolver AND a TI sound together.
 
-- Iain

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Subject: [DSI Synths] Re: Mono Synth Stacking





--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DSI_Evolver%40yahoogroups.com> , "mrandyman73" <mrandyman73@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am curious to find out people's experiences with stacking the
evolver. I currently have my MEK stacked with a Novation Super Bass
Station and an Alesis NanoBass. I find the Novation's arpeggiator rocks
with the evolver's sequencers and the Alesis spares me having to always
add bass to the evo and SBS (It also doubles as a fake bass).
> I have also stacked it with an Access Virus B and the sound is almost
too good to be true. The only drawback is that the Virus is a bit
cramped on the MEKs keyboard (especially when splitting the registers). 
> Oh, and I've gotten some crazy sounds by pairing it up with a Red
Sound Dark Star, but the Dark Star gets a little buzzy and underwhelming
after a while.
> 
> I am wondering if anybody has found a 'perfect compliment' (or maybe
antithesis) to the MEK. And why?
>

I do the opposite: pair an Access Virus Indigo with a DEK. One of them
has a reputation for being "too dark" and the other has a reputation for
being "too harsh". Played together, it sounds like you got your peanut
butter in my chocolate.

If I could do it all over again, I probably would have gone MEK and TI
desktop. But I was four or five years too early and a couple of thousand
dollars short.






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--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Iain Bryden" <ibryden@...> wrote:
>
> Hmm. I've been using one OR the other. I have an MEK and EVO and Virus
> TI Desktop. I must hear how using an Evolver AND a TI sound together.
>  
> -- Iain

Complicated.

And huge if you do it right.

I generally have them playing independant, not truly stacked.  I like to use the DEVO to control bpms on both and let the sequencer and arps mingle and meet.

I also tend to use the evolver for leads.  It's not implcitly better at it, it's just kind of a mental block thing of mine.  I'll lay down a looped bit of evolver with the VCA wide open using a looping pedal, layer some Virus over it then back to the evolver for some weeedly-weeedly stuff.

It's remarkably satisfying