Bad Gear - Evolver by Dave Smith - The False Prophet

Become a Patron and get access to full tracks from the show, additional content, the Bad Gear sound library and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Evolver by Dave Smith. Is this very first instrument and hybrid synth released by DSI a modular synthesizer in a box or the false prophet? Is it still in the tradition of classic Sequential Circuits synths? Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 01:01 Overview DSI Evolver 01:33 Harshness of the Preset Sounds 01:55 How to play it with a Keyboard (Key off/Xpose) 02:08 Analog Oscillators, Sync, Oscillator Slop 02:37 Digital Oscillators, Prophet VS - like Waveforms 02:49 FM, Ring Modulation 02:58 Basic Routing, Noise, Filter, Split 03:37 True Stereo 03:48 Envelopes, LFOs, Signal Flow, Digital FX 04:03 Feedback, Grunge 04:18 Multitap Delay 04:36 Distortion Noise Gate 04:44 Output Hack, HPF, Panning 04:59 Analog/Digital Conversion 05:15 More Modulation 05:34 Step Sequencer (Wave Sequencing) 05:58 Sounds, Processing External Signals 06:19 What else??? 06:33 Pricing 06:40 Hate 07:07 Jam 1 (Techno) 08:08 Jam 2 (“Normal“ Sounds) 09:04 Finale (DarkSynth RetroFunk) 09:35 Verdict