The poly is basically 4 Evolvers in a 1U rack. The voices are
identical to Evolver, for obvious connection reasons. Lots of jacks
on the back - stereo mix outs, individual stereo voice outs, a stereo
mix inputs, and stereo ext ins. An Evolver can be used as a
controller, and the Evolver out can be put into the mix in,
essentially giving you a 5 voice Evolver. There will be a dinky 16x2
LCD, but as usual programming on a 1U rack is pretty silly. Of
course, this is one of the reasons for a 16 character program name in
Evolver - it fits nicely on the bottom line of the LCD on the poly.
Beyond that, it's fairly straight-forward, since it is just multiple
Evolvers. That's why it's been quick so far getting it running - just
today I started playing it polyphonically already. The voicing will
have to be much different in a polyphonic environment. The sequencers
will still be there, separate in each voice, so quad synced
sequencing should be fun to play with. Or, one voice sequencing while
the other 3 are played from the keyboard. No overall sequencer, tho.
Another trick is that the ext in can be routed to any or all of the
voices, for possible quad processing. Or, take the individual voice
out from one voice and put it in the ext in, and route it to another
voice for additional processing.
