Dave Smith Instruments Evolver Operation Manual page 19

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Velocity Curve: 1...4 – Sets one of the four velocity curves for the keyboard; this
gives you the ability to adjust the keyboard to your playing style.
Pressure Curve: 1...4
gives you the ability to adjust the keyboard to your playing style.
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Local Control: Off, On – Enables or disables the internal connection between the
keyboard and panel controls and the synth electronics. This is useful with external
sequencer operation.
DamperPolarity: -, + – For compatibility with different sustain (Damper) pedals
connected to the Sustain jack on the rear panel. Use + for normally open switches,
and use – for normally closed switches.
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PotMode: Relative, Passthru, Jump – The Evolver Keyboard PE (Pot Edition) has
two types of rotary controls on its front panel, potentiometers (or "pots") and rotary
encoders. Of the 58 controls, 43 of them are pots. Generally speaking, the more
performance-oriented controls—like the filter's Frequency and Audio Mod controls—
are pots. The most obvious difference between the pots and encoders is that the pots
have about 330 degrees of travel with obvious minimum and maximum settings and
the encoders are "endless"—they just keep turning. The three pot modes determine
how the synth reacts when a pot-equipped parameter is edited.
When set to Relative, changes are relative to the stored setting. In Relative mode, the
full value range is not available until either the minimum or maximum value and the
respective lower or upper limit of the pot's travel is reached.
For example, the Resonance parameter has a value range of 0 to 127. Let's say the
physical position of the Resonance pot is the equivalent of a value of 100. If you
switch to a program that has a stored Resonance setting of 63 and turn the pot all the
way up, it will only go to 90. To get to the maximum value of 127, you first have to turn
down until the value is at the other extreme and the pot is at the limit of its travel (in
this case, 0 and fully counter-clockwise, respectively).
In Passthru mode, turning the pot has no effect until after the edited value equals the
preset value (that is, until the edited value "passes through" the stored value).
Jump mode uses an absolute value based upon the position of the pot when edited:
turn a pot and the value jumps immediately from the stored value to the edited value.
Velocity Curve:x
Pressure Curve:x
–
Sets one of the four pressure curves for the keyboard; this
LocalControl:xxx
DamperPolarity:x
PotMode:xxxxxxxx
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