Dave Smith Instruments POLY EVOLVER KEYBOARD - Manual (Page 23)

Frequency: C -2…C 8 – Selects the base oscillator frequency over a 10 octave
range, from 8 Hz to 8KHz, stepping in semitones. C3 is middle C, the first octave is –2
(C-2, C#-2, and so on), the second octave is –1 (C-1, C#-1, and so on), the third is
zero (C 0, C# 0…), and so on.
Fine: -50…+50 – Fine Tune control; 0 centered. Steps in cents (50 cents = ½
semitone).
Shape/PW: see table – Selects the analog waveshape as follows:
Display Waveshape
Sawtooth Sawtooth
Triangle Triangle
Saw-Tri Sawtooth – Triangle mix
Pulse xx Pulse Wave, with pulse width ranging from minimum
(0) to maximum (99). The pulse width will turn off at the
two extremes – this allows some interesting modulation
possibilities. A square wave will be around P50.
Level: 0…100 – Sets the volume of the selected Oscillator.
Glide: Normal 0…100; Finger 02…Finger 100; Keybd Off – Sets the Oscillator
Glide rate. Glide can be set independently for each oscillator. Low settings are faster.
Normal Glide covers the range from 1 to 100 (0 is no glide). A “fingered” mode that
only glides when more than one note is held down is selected by setting glide over
100, where it ranges from Finger 02 to Finger 100 (equivalent to glides of 2 to 100).
Note: If you set glide all the way to maximum, it goes to Keybd Off, which has the
effect of disconnecting the selected oscillator from the keyboard.
Note: Fingered Glide only works in Mono or Unison key assign modes.
Sync 2-> 1 – When enabled (lit), turns oscillator hard sync on. With sync on,
whenever oscillator 2 resets, it will also reset oscillator 1 for the classic hard sync
sound.
Oscillators 3 and 4
Oscillators 3 and 4 are digital waveshape oscillators. Oscillator 3 is hardwired to the
Left channel; Oscillator 4 is hardwired to the Right channel. Like the original Prophet
VS, the digital oscillators in Evolvers get quite trashy at higher frequencies.
Frequency: C -2…C 8 – Selects base frequency over a 10 octave range, from 8 Hz
to 8KHz, stepping in semitones. C3 is middle C, the first octave is –2 (C-2, C#-2, and
so on), the second octave is –1 (C-1, C#-1, and so on), the third is zero (C 0, C# 0…),
and so on.
Fine: -50…+50 – Fine Tune control; 0 centered. Steps in cents (50 cents = ½
semitone).
Shape/PW: 1…128 – Selects a digital waveshape. Waveshapes 1 - 95 correspond to
ROM (preset) Waveshapes 32 – 126 in the Prophet-VS. Waveshapes 97 – 128 are
user programmable via the software editor. In the VS, the user waves were 0 - 31,
and wave 127 was noise, which is not included because the Poly Evolver has a
separate noise generator. Wave 96 has a Waveshape that is unique to Evolver in
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