Dave Smith, the creator of the legendary Prophet 5, Wavestation, and first soft-synth in the world, the driving force behind MIDI, has done it again with his latest innovative synthesizer, destined to be a legend, the Evolver.
- Monophonic (one voice) synthesizer.
- 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 re-creations. 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.
- 3 Banks of 128 Programs for 384 total Programs - dump to/from MIDI.
- 16 x 4 Analog-style sequencer - syncs with MIDI.
- Extensive Modulation capabilities, including audio-range modulation. Bipolar (+/-) modulation.
- Easy to program matrix-style front panel with 8 endless-turn rotary encoders.
- A bunch of MIDI stuff.
- The internal computer and DSP chips can be reprogrammed via MIDI, for easy feature additions.
- Evolver's universal power supply runs virtually anywhere; 100 - 240 V AC, 50-60 Hz. It also includes a number of adapter plugs to make it easy.
- Evolver is 10.75" wide, 6" deep, and 1.5" high (27 x 15 x 4 cm). Yes, it is small!
