hihi ^_^

I'm considering buying a hardware synth. I make electro house mostly, so whatever I buy has to be good for bass. Seeing as I have every VST under the sun (incl. reactor and massive running on their own separate computers), I figure an analog synth is the logical way to go. The DSI Evolver is analogue + digital monophonic synth and is pretty cheap.

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Four oscillators in total: two analog, two digital Analog Oscillator waveshape are Sawtooth, Triangle, Saw-Triangle, and Pulse (with voltage-controlled analog Pulse-Width modulation) Digital Oscillators select from 96 wavetables from the Prophet-VS (128 x 12 bits), and 32 user-loadable (via MIDI) Wavetables (128 x 16 bits). The Digital Oscillators get trashy as the frequency gets higher, as with the original VS. Hard Sync on the analog oscillators FM and Ring Mod on the digital oscillators Separate Glide per oscillator, with two glide modes Real voltage-controlled analog lowpass filters - not digital recreations. 4-pole/2-pole switchable, fully resonant (in 4-pole mode). There are two separate filters, one for the left channel and one for the right. Analog Voltage Controlled Amplifiers (VCA), again one for each channel. Dual digital 4-pole Highpass filters (one per channel); place before or after analog electronics. Stereo audio inputs; Noise generator Envelope Follower and Peak Detect from External Input to use as modulation sources External Input can be used to gate envelopes and/or step the Sequencer Three snappy ADSR envelopes Four LFOs (sync with sequencer and MIDI) Dual (left and right channel) tunable feedback loops; modulate frequency and amount Delay with 3 taps; each with separate time and amount modulation. Syncs to sequencer/MIDI. Normal feedback and additional feedback path through analog filters Distortion! Digital, one for each channel, can be placed before or after analog electronics 4 Banks of 128 Programs for 512 total Programs - dump to/from MIDI 16 x 4 Analog-style sequencer - syncs with MIDI Extensive Modulation capabilities, including audio-range modulation. Bipolar (+/-) modulation. A bunch of MIDI stuff The internal computer and DSP chips can be reprogrammed via MIDI, for easy feature additions

I'm not going to be able to afford a Virus this side of the next 10 years, so don't suggest it :P
This is 1/3rd the price of a C (both off ebay).

Yay or nay? Can software easily do everything this can?

Last edited by echosystm on Mar-17-2007 at 05:13

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Originally posted by echosystm Can software easily do everything this can?

Output analogically created waveform? Nope.

I suggest you buy it. Should be great for electro house! I almost bought it myself couple of months ago, but then went for Waldorf Pulse -which I now regret.

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Originally posted by Chronosis Output analogically created waveform? Nope. I suggest you buy it. Should be great for electro house! I almost bought it myself couple of months ago, but then went for Waldorf Pulse -which I now regret.

Funny you say that! I was considering buying a Pulse. What makes the Pulse bad? It has a VST controller, the Evolver only has sysex editing
(unless you do the upgrade mod, but that still deosnt give you midi access to all functions).

I was not all that impressed by the sound when I tried the PolyEvolver a few weeks ago. Then again it's not really my type of synth.

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Originally posted by echosystm What makes the Pulse bad?

Of all the synths I've had (hardware and software) Pulse is the most one-trick-pony. You can program different kind of patches but they still sound more or less the same. If I'd have to describe the sound, it would be something like "squarey and harsh". For hard-style basses and leads this can be good, but I'm just not a fan of that kind of sound.