Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith collaborating on a synth? That’s got to be interesting to any synth nerd. The kind folks at Dave Smith Instruments sent me over a pre-production machine to check out. Here’s my thoughts… The OB6 6 voice fully analog Dave Smith synth with a Tom Oberheim designed filter. It’s got two… Read More Dave Smith Instruments OB6 review
For the past week I’ve been playing with Dave Smith’s new baby, the Pro 2. It comes a little more than a year after the mighty Prophet 12 and, so stylistically similar are they, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the two. Side by side they make quite a pair. The Pro 2 is a three… Read More Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2 review
Boxed Ear (my commercial samples and synth sound company) have just released a brilliant sound set for the Dave Smith Instruments Evolver. It’s a fabulous sound set by ambient electronica noodlists, Two Quiet Suns. There’s 256 sounds in the set (two banks) and they’re packed with organic leads, vintage basses, luscious evolving pads and otherworldly… Read More 256 new sounds for the Dave Smith Evolver
Looking for more great Prophet 12 sounds? My P12 sound bank is now available through Boxed Ear. 99 beautiful electronica patches for your Prophet 12. I have spent the last week exploring every sonic meandering path I could push the Prophet 12 along. Why just a week? Well that’s all I had, during which time it was my pleasure to make as… Read More Dave Smith Prophet 12 review
Another live jam from the lab. Korg ER-1: Drums (through 1176 compressor) Moog Little Phatty: Bass Suzuki SX-500: Melody 1 Yamaha TG-33: Melody 2 DSI Evolver: Melody 3 Eurorack Modular: Crazy blip sequences Eventide Space: Reverb Eventide TimeFactor: Delay Kurzweil Mangler: Big dubby falling delay All recorded via the Soundtracs Topaz to Presonus Studio One.… Read More Live electronica: rozz3r – Waiting for a Storm
Getting away from the Mac/PC to make music is a joy. In the last year or so I’ve been making gear purchases with the goal of writing electronic music ‘live’, with the computer doing nothing except acting as a glorified tape recorder. The whole rig is based around a Sequentix P3 sequencer which provides a… Read More Live electronica: rozz3r – Bonfire Calm
I’ve been spending some time recently creating Max For Live controllers for all my hardware. The beauty of this is you can program a dedicated editor, with patch browsing, in whatever configuration suits you and have all parameters available for automation within Live. It means you can forget about what midi controller number does what… Read More Ableton Live & Max For Live – Integrating hardware
I’ve spent about the last year putting this bank together. Not full time of course, I do have the other things to do occasionally, but this bank represents many late nights nonetheless. 127 brand new sounds for your Evolver (I left a default patch at the end). They mostly fall into the ‘dance’ category (electro,… Read More Free patches – Dave Smith Evolver Sound Bank
A Cubase SX3 Midi Device Panel for the Evolver. Includes ALL parameters, including the new OS2 parameters. (yes, the panel is BIG!) Evolver_Cubase_SX3_Device_Panel.zip [screenshot]