Poly Evolver Keyboard: Icy Pad

Published on Feb 19, 2018 Sacred Synthesis

"This is the sort of sound a Poly Evolver makes when it first wakes up in the morning. It's natural to the instrument. Turn it on, and this is how it first sings to you. Glass, ice, blue water, cold mist - a magnificent mysterious character.

The pad uses an envelope to modulate the filter which, with this particular digital waveshape, has more than the ordinary effect. I also use the high pass filter to occasionally give the sound a distant nasal quality, as if the PEK were being heard from an cheap pocket radio.

Instrumentation:
DSI Poly Evolver Keyboard
DSI Poly Evolver Rack

Bass:
DSI Evolver Desktop
Hammond XPK 200L Pedalboard

Effects:
Lexicon MX 300

Performed live and recorded directly to a Tascam CD-RW900 Mk II."