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Re: [DSI Synths] Evolver DCO popping

Well, since we've all been happily making music with them for a good number of
years now, I doubt this is a "ruiner".

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Computer Controlled <acidted@...> wrote:
>
> I know the Mopho has this issue, but i don't ever remember hearing it on
> the Evo. I'll have to give it a listen. But even the popping on the
> Mopho didn't bother me. I just chalked it up to the it's fast EGs =o]
>
>
> Anu Kirk wrote:
> > Ok gang, I am about to ruin your Evolver.
> >
> > I read this post:
> >
http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49602&start=0&hilit=dco+po\
p

> >
> > ...and I said, "No this is ridiculous, I have had an Evolver for 4+ years.
I've never heard this."
> >
> > So I got home, dialed up a simple patch. It's true, it's there, and now that
I've heard it, I can't STOP hearing it.
> >
> > To repro:
> > Create a simple patch using the ANALOG oscillators - one or two. Make sure
the envelopes have short attacks.
> >
> > Play enough low notes that you cycle all the voices your evolver setup has
on the low note - one note should be sufficient for standard MONO setups, 4 for
standard POLYs. So, tap a low C 1-4 times.
> >
> > Now start to tap some high notes - an octave or two above middle C.
> >
> > Listen. What you will hear is that each voice that transitions from a low
note to a high note will produce an audible "clopping" - a wide-frequency
glitch/click as each voice goes from the low note to the high note.
> >
> > Apparently it can't be fixed.
> >
> > The digital oscillators don't have this issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>





Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:31 am

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Ok gang, I am about to ruin your Evolver. I read this post: http://www.vintagesynth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49602&start=0&hilit=dco+pop ...and I said,...
Anu Kirk
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Jul 11, 2009
12:00 am

I know the Mopho has this issue, but i don't ever remember hearing it on the Evo. I'll have to give it a listen. But even the popping on the Mopho didn't...
Computer Controlled
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Jul 11, 2009
5:28 am

Well there was some interesting discussion, including the suggestion that an option to have the oscs reset on note-on might stop the effect. I don't consider...
massimo
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Jul 11, 2009
11:45 am

I tested this on my PER and at first I didn't think what you described was happening. I was listening for a higher pitched audible click of some sort. But then...
Robert Krueger
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Jul 11, 2009
3:05 pm

I actually kind of like it....extra punch On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Robert...
Horton
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Jul 11, 2009
10:19 pm

Well, since we've all been happily making music with them for a good number of years now, I doubt this is a "ruiner"....
yea
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Jul 12, 2009
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