Dave Smith Instruments Evolver

Designed by Dave Smith, founder of Sequential Circuits and long-time music technology innovator, the 4-voice polyphonic Poly Evolver combines some of his best creations into slick-looking 61-key keyboard. Start with the oscillators: two real analog oscillators featuring Sawtooth, Triangle, Saw-Triangle, and Pulse meet two digital wavetable generators with a choice of 96 waveforms (like the Prophet VS). You can hard sync the analog oscillators (like Prophet 5) and link the digital ones with either FM or Ring Mod for a wide pallette of sounds. And there's no skimping on filters either: real voltage-controlled analog lowpass filters - not digital recreations. 4-pole/2-pole switchable, fully resonant (in 4-pole mode). You also get an audio input that can run through the effects and filter to your heart's content. There's more - a 16-step sequencer with MIDI sync, onboard distortion and delay, syncable LFO's... let your sound Evolve!

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• Synthesizers
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[1978djd]

The desktop is wonderful. It's like a suite of guitar pedals stuck to a mono synth. One thing I noticed when I got it though, the LP filter doesn't sound as good as the one in the tetra. The most incredible feature of this synth is the delay line - absolutely fantastic. Why can't DS ditch the analogue waveforms and offer better polyphony while keeping the Curtis filters? The digital side of this synth sounds great.

[remixerone]

and... the synth???????