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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference and
(2) this device must accept any interference received,

including interference that may cause undesired
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Summary of Contents for Poly Evolver

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Page 3: ...Poly Evolver Operation Manual Version 2 2 February 2010 Dave Smith Instruments 1210 Cabrillo Hwy N Half Moon Bay CA 94019 1449 USA 2006 2010 Dave Smith Instruments www DaveSmithInstruments com...

Page 4: ...and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference Cau...

Page 5: ...y Oscillators LFO 24 Envelope 3 25 Miscellaneous Audio Parameters 26 Miscellaneous Parameters 27 Miscellaneous Timing Parameters 29 MIDI Modulation Parameters 30 Miscellaneous Modulation Parameters 30...

Page 6: ...the Poly s signal outputs to your mixer sound system and connect a MIDI keyboard to the MIDI in jack The Poly Evolver has two main modes Program and Combo Program mode sets all 4 voices to the same so...

Page 7: ...sequence etc Hit the GLOBAL button to change higher level parameters such as MIDI channel number Transpose Detune etc These are remembered when the synth is turned off Poly Evolver Editor The Poly Ev...

Page 8: ...o erase Also Program 128 in bank 2 is a simple basic Program that can be used as a starting point Combos are also mixed again with some test Combos at the end of bank 3 You will also see that there is...

Page 9: ...late Check the 2 pole 4 pole switch Row 3 Knob 1 Shift the filter only oscillates when 4 poles are used 4 I seem to be getting some distortion in my output Assuming that the Distortion is off you are...

Page 10: ...Poly will change also For example changing MIDI channels on the Evolver will also change the MIDI channels on the Poly which is likely what you would want However if you change the MIDI Clock on the E...

Page 11: ...A converters are used to connect the analog and digital As can be seen there are two sets of stereo converters they run at 48 kHz sampling rate with 24 bits of precision for minimum impact on the ana...

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Page 13: ...ton is released the sequence will complete according to the length of Sequence 1 before synchronously changing to the new program and it s sequence Edit Program Mode To edit a Program simply hit the E...

Page 14: ...You can see how this works by watching the 4 voice LEDs as you play When all 4 voices are held and a new note is received it is necessary to steal a voice to play the new note since you always want to...

Page 15: ...ed on every Program or Combo change Bottom Line Clock Divide see table Used as a clock divider to provide a wider range of sequencer speeds When set to Quartr quarter notes the BPM setting is exact i...

Page 16: ...per the MIDI Clock parameter Page 4 Clock xxxxxxxx Prog Tempo xx Top Line Clock see table Selects the MIDI clock status and enables External sequencer triggers as follows Display MIDI Clock Setting In...

Page 17: ...tion Single Program Send current program Program Bank Send all 128 programs in current bank All Program Banks Send all programs in all four banks Single Combo Send current combo Combo Bank Send all 12...

Page 18: ...l Following are the main controls for Oscillator 1 Note that there are some additional modulation controls that will affect Oscillator 1 these are found in different sections of the Parameter definiti...

Page 19: ...iddle C the first octave is 2 c 2 c 2 etc the second octave is 1 c 1 c 1 etc the third is zero c 0 c 0 etc Fine Freq 50 50 Fine Tune control 0 centered Steps in cents 50 cents semitone Wave Shape 1 12...

Page 20: ...ue stereo processing of external audio signals run through Evolver However for simplicity and consistency the two filters are driven together in tandem so they normally respond the same way Exceptions...

Page 21: ...ts a base level for the VCA Voltage controlled Amplifier This allows the VCA to be essentially bypassed which may be necessary for processing external audio signals or for Programs that drone Note if...

Page 22: ...frequency Frequency 0 48 Sets the base frequency of the main feedback loop It steps in semitones from C0 to C4 0 48 for a four octave range The exact frequency is influenced by other factors such as t...

Page 23: ...h memory for one second of delay so it will not work When too slow as in this case simply clamping it at one second would not likely be a multiple of the step time So if the requested time is too long...

Page 24: ...three have the same four parameters Freqncy 0 150 sync Selects the frequency of LFO Range 0 150 for unsynced LFO speed ranges from slow 30 seconds to very fast at 90 8 HZ C 2 and above the speed step...

Page 25: ...ndently Dstination see table LFO 1 destination see the Modulation Destination table on page 34 for a list of possible destinations Page 10 LFO 2 Page 11 LFO 3 Page 12 LFO 4 These LFOs screens are the...

Page 26: ...ut of one voice can be routed to the input of another voice Display External Audio Input Mode Stereo Stereo the left channel in goes to the left channel right to right Left Left the left channel in go...

Page 27: ...lope parameters ADSR for the desired effect Sequencr The envelopes will be triggered by the sequencer only MIDI The envelopes will be triggered by MIDI notes only MIDI rst The envelopes will be trigge...

Page 28: ...an simply use the transpose here Key Mode Poly Mono Unison 1 Unison 2 see table Selects the key mode when playing on the keyboard There are 4 groups of key modes Poly Ply Mono Mon Unison 1 Un1 and Uni...

Page 29: ...rty second note triplets 64trip BPM x 24 Sixty fourth note triplets Page 16 Mod Sources Source 1 see table General purpose modulation source select see list on page 36 for possible sources Since all m...

Page 30: ...an up messy MIDI controller data into a clean response If you want to bypass the filtering use one of the four General Purpose Modulation sets which are unfiltered Press Dest see table Pressure Destin...

Page 31: ...ee table Envelope Follower Destination see the Modulation Destination table on page 34 for a list of possible destinations Seq 1 Dest see table Sequence 1 Destination see the Modulation Destination ta...

Page 32: ...stinations including Note Number Velocity Mod Wheel Pressure Breath and Foot Controller Velocity is a special case it only works if selected as the destination for Sequence 2 when Sequence 1 s destina...

Page 33: ...elopes on that step As mentioned above the rests will end up in different places on other sequences if they are a different length Using rests resets and different Clock Divides half swing swing etc y...

Page 34: ...Pulse width O2 PW Oscillator 2 Pulse width OA PW Oscillator All Pulse width FM4 3 Frequency Mod FM Amount Osc 4 3 FM3 4 Frequency Mod FM Amount Osc 3 4 RM4 3 Ring Mod Amplitude Amount Osc 4 3 Rm3 4 Ri...

Page 35: ...ecay Rate E3Dec Envelope 3 Decay Rate EADec Envelope All Decay Rate E1Rel Envelope 1 Release Rate E2Rel Envelope 2 Release Rate E3Rel Envelope 3 Release Rate EARel Envelope All Release Rate F1Frq Filt...

Page 36: ...Env Filter Envelope A Env Amp VCA Envelope Env 3 Envelope 3 Peak External Audio Input Peak EnvFol External Audio Envelope Follower Mid PB Midi Pitch Bend Mid MW Midi Mod Wheel Mpress Midi Pressure Mb...

Page 37: ...g voices to Parts with Part 1 You cannot assign more than 4 voices For example if you set both Part 1 and Part 2 to Poly 3 the total would be 6 voices so it obviously it will not work with only a four...

Page 38: ...l swing timing 8 trip BPM x 3 Eighth note triplets 16th BPM x 4 Sixteenth note 16half BPM x 4 Sixteenth note half swing timing 16swng BPM x 4 Sixteenth note full swing timing 16trip BPM x 6 Sixteenth...

Page 39: ...ted on multiple MIDI notes until it finishes and stops AUTO MS Once R Also plays a MIDI sequence once but will re start the sequence on each MIDI note AUTO EiSqStep Plays one step of the sequencer on...

Page 40: ...owing sets the velocity range this Part responds to This is useful for setting a velocity split point so one Part plays at low velocity notes and another plays at higher velocities Or you could set mu...

Page 41: ...MIDI out jack where it can be routed to another Poly Evolver Note that MIDI clocks are handled separately per the MIDI Clock parameter you will likely want to use the MIDI In and OUT clock setting Set...

Page 42: ...te the sequencer sequencer must be on AUTO Ext G r External In signal will gate the sequencer sequencer must be on And also resets the sequencer to step 1 on each new gate AUTO MS Once Plays a sequenc...

Page 43: ...y C 2 C 8 This parameter along with the High Key parameter following sets the keyboard range that this part will respond to The frequency over a 10 octave range from 8 Hz to 8KHz stepping in semitones...

Page 44: ...r Gated mode reset same as Gated mode except every time a MIDI note is hit the sequencer is reset to step 1 AUTO Ext In The envelopes are gated by the Left external audio input signal level in other...

Page 45: ...Mod Wheel directly assignable controller 1011 nnnn 2 0vvvvvvv Breath Controller directly assignable controller 1011 nnnn 3 0vvvvvvv Foot Controller directly assignable controller 1011 nnnn 7 0vvvvvvv...

Page 46: ...ecay 77 Amp Sustain 78 Amp Release 13 Highpass Filter Cutoff 85 Feedback Frequency 86 Feedback Level 12 Distortion 102 Delay 1 Time 103 Delay 2 Time 104 Delay 3 Time 105 Delay 1 Amount 106 Delay 2 Amo...

Page 47: ...1 1111 0000 0110 Inquiry Message 0000 0001 Inquiry Request 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Poly responds with Status Description 1111 0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0111 1110 Non realtime message 0vvv vvv...

Page 48: ...er ID 0000 0001 File Version 0000 0001 Program Parameter 0vvv vvvv Parameter Number 0 127 Parameters are in the same order as Evolver The Parameter data starts on page 61 0000 vvvv Parameter value LS...

Page 49: ...0000 vvvv Parameter value MS Nibble 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Global Parameters Status Description 1111 0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 00...

Page 50: ...y with Evolvers Request Program Edit Buffer Dump Status Description 1111 0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0000 0110 Request Program Edit Buffer...

Page 51: ...ystem Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0011 1000 Request Combo Edit Buffer Transmit 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Evolver will respond by sending out the c...

Page 52: ...xclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0001 0001 Program Name Data 0000 00vv Bank Number 0 3 0vvv vvvv Program Number 0 127 0vvv vvvv 16 name data bytes Note that...

Page 53: ...0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0011 0111 Edit Buffer Data 0vvv vvvv 220 bytes in packed MS bit format see page 54 Includes 128 bytes of Progr...

Page 54: ...128 can be a full 16 bits 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Packed Data Format Data is packed in 8 byte packets with the MS bit stripped from 7 parameter bytes and packed into an eighth byte which is sen...

Page 55: ...D 0010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0000 0100 Reset Button 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Shift Button On Status Description 1111 0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000 Evolv...

Page 56: ...010 0000 Evolver ID 0000 0001 File Version 0011 0000 Select Program Mode 1111 0111 End of Exclusive EOX Select Combo Mode Status Description 1111 0000 System Exclusive SysEx 0000 0001 DSI ID 0010 0000...

Page 57: ...te triplets 10 Thirty second Notes 11 Thirty second Notes triplets 12 Sixty Fourth Notes triplets 6 0 1 Use Program tempo 0 Off 1 On 7 0 6 MIDI clock select 0 Use Internal clock don t send MIDI clock...

Page 58: ...14 0 16 MIDI Channel if 0 data received on all MIDI channels Otherwise channel number 1 16 15 X Not used zero sent in Main Dump 16 0 127 Combo number 1 128 17 0 2 Combo Bank 1 to 3 Note Some parameter...

Page 59: ...swing 6 Eighth Note full swing 7 Eighth Note triplets 8 Sixteenth Note 9 Sixteenth Note half swing 10 Sixteenth Note full swing 11 Sixteenth Note triplets 12 Thirty second Notes 13 Thirty second Note...

Page 60: ...ce plays once when a MIDI note is received 9 25 41 57 0 72 Transpose 0 36 semitones 3 octaves 36 0 no transpose and 72 36 semitones 10 26 42 58 0 100 Fine Freq 0 50 cents 50 0 centered 100 50 cents 11...

Page 61: ...idth 0 99 7 0 100 Oscillator 2 Level Parameter Range Description 8 0 120 Oscillator 3 Frequency 0 120 in semitones 10 octave range 9 0 100 Oscillator 3 Fine Tune 0 50 cents 50 0 centered 100 50 cents...

Page 62: ...to the right 31 0 100 Program Volume Parameter Range Description 32 0 48 Feedback Frequency steps in semitones 33 0 100 Feedback Amount 34 0 1 Grunge 0 off 1 on 35 0 166 Delay 1 Time 36 0 100 Delay 1...

Page 63: ...o Envelopes will only be triggered with both a MIDI note and the sequencer is running 5 Combo Reset same with sequencer reset on Note On 6 External Input gates the envelopes 7 External Input gates the...

Page 64: ...th re trigger Parameter Range Description 72 0 200 Glide Oscillator 3 101 199 Fingered 200 osc midi off 73 0 100 FM Oscillator 4 to Oscillator 3 74 0 4 Shape Mod Oscillator 3 0 Off 1 Sequence 1 etc 75...

Page 65: ...on 0 99 for distortion on output 100 199 for levels 0 99 with distortion on input Parameter Range Description 104 0 160 LFO 3 Frequency same as LFO 1 105 0 4 LFO 3 Shape same as LFO 1 106 0 200 LFO 3...

Page 66: ...67 122 0 198 Pressure Amount 99 to 99 123 0 68 Pressure Destination see destination table on page 67 124 0 198 Breath Controller Amount 99 to 99 125 0 68 Breath Controller Destination see destination...

Page 67: ...width 16 Frequency Mod FM Amount Osc 4 3 17 Frequency Mod FM Amount Osc 3 4 18 Ring Mod Amplitude Amount Osc 4 3 19 Ring Mod Amplitude Amount Osc 3 4 20 Filter frequency 21 Filter Split separation bet...

Page 68: ...58 Envelope 3 Decay 59 Envelope A Decay 60 Envelope 1 Release 61 Envelope 2 Release 62 Envelope 3 Release 63 Envelope A Release 64 Filter 1 left Cutoff Frequency 65 Filter 2 right Cutoff Frequency 66...

Page 69: ...4 9 Filter Envelope 10 Amp VCA Envelope 11 Envelope 3 12 External Audio Input Peak 13 External Audio Envelope Follower 14 Midi Pitch Bend 15 Midi Mod Wheel 16 Midi Pressure 17 Midi Breath Controller 1...

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