Dave deliberately 'dumbed down' multimode on the pek so that you would not be able to save individual patches from multimode. It's great spending a bunch of...
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bug.out
blowupbug
Oct 15, 2010 1:07 am
my point being, I see the midi out from the evo seq as a bonus. you see it as a flaw. if your wishes are to be granted, why stop there? why not add cc...
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Rory
rory_dow
Oct 15, 2010 10:18 am
Your Evolver is not a sequencer with missing functionality. It's a synthesizer with extra functionality :P...
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steven pistrich
wasteking1
Oct 15, 2010 1:41 pm
i see two schools of thought here: 1.-- the DSI synth is perfect as is ,and we should be grateful for its existance and be quiet 2.-- the DSI synth is an...
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Scott Lawlor
sklawlor@...
Oct 15, 2010 2:02 pm
Hi. Why are the encoders on the evolver such a pain? As a blind person who's interested in getting one of these because there aren't very many menus from what...
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Ravi Ivan Sharma
noision1
Oct 15, 2010 2:34 pm
No. Third school. It is a hardware synth with a set of functions and therefore some limitations. Some functions may be added, some may never be. Clearly not...
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Brain
brainwashing@...
Oct 16, 2010 12:11 pm
You can't save individual patch when you are in combo mode with PEK ? Really ? This is crazy... The only synth i've seen doing well with patch and combo is...
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Ravi Ivan Sharma
noision1
Oct 16, 2010 2:42 pm
the tetra allows this. I love it....
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Scott Lawlor
sklawlor@...
Oct 16, 2010 3:30 pm
what's pek and tetro? ... From: Ravi Ivan Sharma To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [DSI Synths] Why no rest...
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Ravi Ivan Sharma
noision1
Oct 16, 2010 3:32 pm
pek is short for poly evolver keyboard tetra is dave's 4 voice table top synth that came out last year. www.davesmithintstruments.com...
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James Elliott
johans121
Oct 16, 2010 4:01 pm
AHAHAAHAHAH! ARE YOU F'ING SERIOUS!?! When people asked DSI to incorporate that in the PolyEvolvers he said flat out that he didn't want to incorporate...
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Stefan Trippler
drtrippler
Oct 16, 2010 4:29 pm
You know what you're talking about? While the Tetra has its own RAM for each Combo part, the PEK had not. Combos in the PEK contained only pointers to single...
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Markus Hof
balinillo
Oct 16, 2010 4:29 pm
Phew, Now that you're gone, there's more DSI synths left for me to buy :) Sorry, but this is getting a little ridiculous, really. Although I must say that I...
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James Elliott
johans121
Oct 16, 2010 5:09 pm
I think that it is kind of funny that people who don't care about features that they don't care about think that people who do care about them is ridiculous. I...
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Ancient Eyeball Recipe
droolmaster0
Oct 16, 2010 5:45 pm
And other synths (like the waldorf series) allow a user to decide whether he wants to save individual patches. I, and certainly a number of other users, want...
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Dustin D
djnisus
Oct 16, 2010 6:39 pm
Yeah I have noticed a few things that leave me scratching my head as to why that feature doesn't work. I have both an Evolver and a Tetra and for example the...
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Tom Wiltshire
electricdruid
Oct 16, 2010 9:20 pm
... This is something I would really love to see. I genuinely believe that people would buy *more* DSI gear not less if it were opened up in this way. If I...
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Stefan Trippler
drtrippler
Oct 16, 2010 9:57 pm
... This might indeed bring a few new customers. But most likely not enough to cover the cost of the additional people for the manufacturer's support ...
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James Elliott
johans121
Oct 16, 2010 10:15 pm
I think it would go without saying that if a manufacturer were to open up the code to the public then the company would not support the altered product. I ...
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lesser_inc
Oct 17, 2010 9:43 pm
Let's face it. In this day and age its what limits us, not enables us, that creates good music. Seriously, you have NO OTHER WAY to create a sequence to send...
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Scott Lawlor
sklawlor@...
Oct 17, 2010 10:06 pm
when you say the encoders jump, what does that mean from a sonic perspective? ... From: lesser_inc To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 17,...
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James Elliott
johans121
Oct 18, 2010 2:07 am
Wow J. I guess you have my work flow all sorts of figured out don'cha? Maybe I really don't want to use my computer in my setup. Maybe I would like to use my ...
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Tom Wiltshire
electricdruid
Oct 18, 2010 3:13 am
... You're probably right, Stefan. Customers can be an unreasonable bunch, it seems. Getting upset at X for code written by Y is pretty clearly unfair though. ...
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Bob S.
bob_at_work_...
Oct 18, 2010 6:35 am
We had a similar issue and discussion in another group I am in involved in, the Korg MS2000 group. There are changes and features that we all would have liked...
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steven pistrich
wasteking1
Oct 18, 2010 12:18 pm
my issue with DSI a year ago on this forum was about having an optional 4 voice addon upgrade , hooking up an added internal board to chain voices ...
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lesser_inc
Oct 18, 2010 4:06 pm
... JE- I clearly don't have anything figured out. Starting off constructively, you could look into buying a Novation Bass Station. They are cheap and have a...
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lesser_inc
Oct 18, 2010 4:09 pm
... What ends up happening is I turn the encoder a bunch of times and finally it catches on a value.. so theres stuttering in the values... If I may, an...
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brian t
b_p_t_01
Oct 18, 2010 6:31 pm
Dude, why aren't you using the 777's sequencer? And most serious musicians will tell you that limitations are the things that truly drive them....
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James Elliott
johans121
Oct 18, 2010 7:45 pm
Yes, I have a 777, and I use the 777's sequencer to drive the 777. I sometimes use the evolver's sequencer to drive my modular synth via a midi/cv converter ...
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meatballfulton
Oct 19, 2010 3:52 pm
... Better to ask how Akai feels about the JJOS, a third party OS for existing products not long discontinued ones....
