I’ve been wanting a keyboard synth for playing more melodic traditional tones over top of the sequences I make on my Evolver, so I got a Mopho for a great deal.
I’m in love with the hardware/keybed, but it lacks beaf and doesn’t scream or growl like the Evolver. When making sounds, the general tone is there, but I keep finding myself wanting to add delay to the spacey sounds and distortion/saturation to the bassy sounds. I get sounds much easier with the Evolver.
I don’t think a second Evolver with a controller is the proper solution, and a MEK is out of my price range. Should I just stick with it? Is there magic in this box that I need to really dig in to find? , The presets don’t give any indication of what the synth is capable of.
I’ve heard it sits well in a mix. I just jam, but would like to record eventually. Maybe searching for the fatness in a synth that’s supposed to support my already fat edgy synth isn’t the best idea? Just looking for some insight.
Try running your Mopho through the Evolver’s external inputs, as one of many possibilities.
I have 2 MEK’s and 2 Desktop Evolvers poly chained to them, a Mopho Keys and a Tetra Poly Chained to it for 5 voices and no, I do not think there’s too much overlap.
I would recommend downloading “The Definitive Guide To The Evolver” by Anu Kirk. I would post a link but the DSI Forum is currently crashed but you can find it via a Google search. It will unlock the Evolver and blow your mind!
Remember, with the Evolver you have two analog and 2 digital wavetable oscillators in which you can combine or even use them in any configuration, and there’s an extra low pass analog filter in the Evolver (one for each side of signal chain), as well as a digital high pass filter on both sides.
The external inputs of the Evolver make for a seriously intense universe of sound manipulation. Until you download the aforementioned guide, study the signal chain diagram of the Evolver, as that will help quite a bit.
I started with a Desktop Evolver then added my first MEK…it definitely is THE BEST quasi-mono-synth and the MEK totally is a night and day difference as far as user interface and user experience. I dare say that I at times love the analog half of it better than the Mopho but the Mopho has places it will go the Evolver cannot and visa-versa.
Hope that helps. That guide will take you through MANY exercises and completely familiarize you with it and it’s free and extensively thorough.
I love the MEK so much that when it was announced that it was discontinued I bought a second one that’s indeed in my set-up but moreso as a back-up as I never want to be without it. It’s one of the most ingenious monosynths of it’s kind…love it like my Spectralis 1 and Waldorf Pulse 1 and 2.
You can get great sounds out of the Mopho but cannot expect it to go to lvels of a Moog or a Waldorf Pulse as the Mopho has it’s own character. Mopho Keyboard has quite a nice keyboard and controls are well laid out…perfect for poly chaining a Tetra to it for 5 voices.
