[sdiy] dave smith *instruments*

[Benjamin Budts]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if there are owners of the prophet 08', 
polyevolver, tetra ... and if they could give their insights on the 
*glitch* I noticed.

Went to the musicstore in Köln this weekend to be able to test the dave 
smith stuff...
I noticed turning the rotary encoders quite fast made the lcd value go 
berserk, the value would come to a halt or it would start to increase 
when you were turning the other side... I was just stupified that I had 
this problem on a +- 2000€ synth.

Besides I found the prophet 08' sounded OK (I have to admit I don't own 
a poly analogue hybrid synth or a vintage prophet 05')

The salesmen from musicstore Germany told me : that's dave smith stuff, 
known for being innacurate and , inreliable and cheapo... Can someone 
comment on this ?
The pots were indeed a bit wobbly, but hey the features offered in both 
the poly and the prophet08' are amazing I think (the slop, 4 lfo's ...) 
. I also think each synth has its positive and negative sides. People 
tend to compare them too much to the vintage stuff, that was 25 years 
ago :p and they also had their weaknesses, sometimes a lot worse !

Back home I searched a bit about this problem and also send a mail to 
Dave Smith instruments (no response yet) . I found on some forum that it 
shouldn't have any impact on the audio,if you turn the pot and the lcd 
values hangs, the audio will *not* hang if you understand what I mean, 
so it's just a matter of a digital calculation not being able to keep 
up. Can someone confirm this ?

I had this problem on the new TETRA, POLY Evolver and the Prophet 08'.

Any insights on why he released a PE edition ?
Personally I found the never ending pots, especially for cutoff and 
resonance *evil*, it took me lots of turns to get it to 100% or 0% ... 
very frustrating. This should be solved with the PE edition I guess, it 
will have a 270° rotation.

Hope there's a Poly or Prophet owner that could enlighten me here :-).

thx
Benjamin