Owner manual

To select Combo mode, just hit the C

OMBO button. Combos give you complete

flexibility configuring the four voices; you can stack or split the keyboard, assign

different Programs to different MIDI channels, set it to play multiple different

sequences synchronously, etc.

There are 3 banks of 128 Combos, a total of 384. As with the Programs, you can

edit Combos by just hitting the EDIT button. Again, the top knob selects the

parameter, the lower changes the value of that parameter. You can have up to 4

Parts to each Combo, though all four do not have to be used. For example, a

split Combo, with one voice for bass on the low end of the keyboard, and 3

polyphonic voices on the upper end, would only require 2 parts. The PAGE UP

and P

AGE DOWN buttons step between the four parts for quick editing.

Your Poly Evolver also has some very cool features for use as a stereo signal

processor. In Combo mode you can have one or more voices using the External

Signal Input, so the external signal can be routed to all four voices, with each

voice doing different things to the signal, such as filtering, envelope following,

distortion, feedback, delay, driving a 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 Evolver comes with a stand-alone editor for both the PC and the Mac

OSX. Place the CDROM in your CD drive to install it. You might want to check

http://www.soundtower.com/evolver/ for the latest version. Register at

http://www.soundtower.com/poly

/regist.htm to get your registration code.

Summary

You should be up and running now; for more operation information, read on. Or,

just look up specific parameters for detailed notes. Pages 34 through 36 contain

a han

dy reference for mod destinations and sources. At some point you should

read through the manual to discover all the little features that you might not

notice at first.

I should mention that this manual does not include explanations of basic

synthesizer functions. It assumes you already know what an oscillator is, how a

lowpass filter affects the sound, what an ADSR envelope looks like, etc.

Fortunately, these days it is quite easy to find such resources on the Internet. If

you want to learn the lingo and the basics, just try a search in Google (or the

search engine of your choice), something like “analog synthesizer tutorial”. You’ll

find plenty of good reading material.

Have fun!

Dave Smith