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schrecks
Joined: May 27, 2009 Posts: 43 Location: berlin
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:29 am Post subject:
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I'm not sure what you mean by Prophet style knobs -
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Musicstore and Thomann have this photos on the PE edition.
You can also buy a Prophet knob kit for the MEK and PEK.
Looks IMO way better and with more quality.
But my question: are this Prophet knobs really better?
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schrecks
Joined: May 27, 2009 Posts: 43 Location: berlin
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:35 am Post subject:
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...upssss....something went wrong with .gif maybe...
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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:39 am Post subject:
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I seem to remember that the knobs were OK. I do prefer way huger knobs like on my dotcom modular as these provide longer travel. As for the Mek/Pek.. the real issue is like Antimon explained more about the actual device the knob is attached to.. like the quality of the encoders. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Antimon
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 4145 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:29 am Post subject:
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The original PEK used endless encoders that would always edit values incrementally, like on a Nord Modular G2 or Alesis Ion or BCR2000. They also used this on the first Prophet '08s. Due to the amount of problems they had with these encoders, a couple of years ago they started making Prophets and Evolvers using non-endless, old-style encoders (is there some good term for these?), like you'll find on the old Nord Modular or Nord Lead or common modular modules or general pre-00's synthesizers. They also issued a kit that could be used to modify existing Evolver keyboards from endless to the more robust non-endless knobs.
@shrecks: the pictures you posted are of the more robust, non-endless encoder version. I have an older version with endless, dodgy encoders.
Re: the desktop mono Evolver - this uses yet another kind of endless encoder which in my experience is more robust than the endless ones I have on the PEK. _________________ Antimon's Window
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