[sdiy] Polyevolver, AudioMidi Synth Guru talk last nite.

[Jonathan Lippard]

I believe the PolyEvolver has DCOs.  But don't let that fool you, it's a 
great sounding unit and has a good presence in a mix.  I own one and I'm 
still getting into it--it's remarkably versatile.  I seem to recall one 
night I sat playing tuned noise in various guises for an hour and a 
half.  I've never done that with a synth.

And I'd love to see Tom Oberheim get back into synth building--but after 
having his company stolen out from him (and then hollowed out) by Gibson, I 
wouldn't blame him for staying out for good.  Particularly after his later 
attempts didn't get off the ground, even though he would fare better this 
time, the market having changed in the past decade.

-Jonathan

At 02:04 AM 4/26/2005 +0200, karl dalen wrote:
>are you shure its "VCOs" as in CCO "current controlled oscillator",
>ie, a linear oscillator (integrator + comparator trigger) or if
>its more of the DCO variant type of VCO?
>Tom marketed the MARION SYNTH as using "HRO's",
>high range oscillators wich sugests to the
>timer+ integrator type of VCO!
>
>would be interesting to know if the polyevolver uses VCO's!
>
>Reg
>KD
>--- Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:38:02AM -0700, Barry Klein wrote:
> > > Saw the AudioMidi event last nite and asked Dave.  The chip is an 
> improved
> > > Curtis chip that Doug Curtis did as a favor to Dave.  Doug is now 
> employed
> > > in a different non-music-related field so I doubt more chips will 
> follow...
> >
> > It was actually designed for Tom Oberheim's Marion Synth and the initial
> > batch Dave got from Overheim directly.  Back when the Evolver was still 
> new,
> > got to see Dave give a talk at the local AES meeting.  As I think has been
> > mentioned, was facinating to hear how he basically designed, build, and
> > shipped a synth without ever leaving the house.  I've had the lid off a 
> Poly
> > Evolver Rack and sure enough it still has the Marion chips in it...
> >
> > Wonder if there is some way to hack the two unused VCO's to life ( he used
> > two chips in the original evolver to get 4 filters, but only used two 
> of the
> > VCOs... )
> >
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