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| - A series of synthesizers produced by Dave Smith Instruments. The Evolvers consist of a hybrid of analog and digital circuitry, and contain features oriented towards the production of dance and club music, with the ability to synchronize all of the onboard rhythmic elements (LFOs, envelope generators, and the onboard digital delay). DSI has since manufactured the Evolver in four versions:
- The virtual-reality arcade combat game Evolver is all the rage, and Kyle's score is on top of the country charts. So, logically, he's the one chosen to test a real-life version of the game that the company just came up with. They deliver him a small robot, the titular Evolver, and a few innocuous laser-pointer guns to fight it with.
- Foldit players start out as soloists. As the name implies, soloists play on their own, and can only work on their own solutions. Players can also join a group, which allows them to play as "evolvers". Members of a group can share their solutions with each, with a goal of improving them. (Evolver play was called "improver" in earlier versions of Foldit.) Evolvers have a separate set of Foldit rankings. Foldit also forbids players from using evolver solutions in their solos. Under "Gameplay Guidelines", the Foldit Community rules state: But copying the overall shape of a protein is forbidden:
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| - Foldit players start out as soloists. As the name implies, soloists play on their own, and can only work on their own solutions. Players can also join a group, which allows them to play as "evolvers". Members of a group can share their solutions with each, with a goal of improving them. (Evolver play was called "improver" in earlier versions of Foldit.) Evolvers have a separate set of Foldit rankings. Evolver play has certain restrictions. A player must improve a shared solution by two points before registering on the evolver scoreboards. While 2 points is only a gain of 0.025% on an 8000-point puzzle, it can be hard to achieve toward the end of a puzzle. Fortunately, only whole points count, so a solution shared at 9173.927 points requires only 1.073 to evolve to 9175. Another restriction on evolver play involves when a player joins a group. Players can't evolve solutions to puzzles that were open when they joined a group. Only puzzles that open after a player joins a group are available to evolve. Foldit also forbids players from using evolver solutions in their solos. Under "Gameplay Guidelines", the Foldit Community rules state: Any method of copying data from other players or external sources in order to increase your solo score is cheating. If you'd like to collaborate or expand upon another person's work, you must do so as an evolver. The gameplay guidelines do include some exceptions to this rule: [Y]ou may copy or attempt to reproduce secondary structures. In addition, you may copy sequences inside a design puzzle. But copying the overall shape of a protein is forbidden: Copying tertiary and/or quaternary structures from other players or third parties is forbidden.
- A series of synthesizers produced by Dave Smith Instruments. The Evolvers consist of a hybrid of analog and digital circuitry, and contain features oriented towards the production of dance and club music, with the ability to synchronize all of the onboard rhythmic elements (LFOs, envelope generators, and the onboard digital delay). The original Evolver, introduced in 2002, was DSI's first product. It is a monophonic unit packaged in a tabletop configuration. All parameters are controlled by eight knobs, arranged in a visual presentation on the panel with the parameters in rows; buttons select which set of parameters are being controlled at any time. The voice architecture consist of two DCOs and two fully digital oscillators (loaded with the wave tables from the Prophet VS). Any oscillator can be assigned to either of two channels, each of which contains a VCF, VCA, and output jack. A wide variety of modulation sources can be routed to any element, including an onboard sequencer, and all modulations can be synchronized to MIDI clock or an internal clock. The MIDI implementation features MIDI overflow, so that multiple Evolvers can be chained for polyphonic operation. DSI has since manufactured the Evolver in four versions:
* The original tabletop monophonic version
* A keyboard monophonic version, for performers desiring more control. This has a 3-octave keyboard and a full set of parameter knobs.
* The Poly Evolver, a 4-voice polyphonic version in a rackmount package.
* The Poly Evolver Keyboard, a 4-voice polyphonic unit with a 5-octave keyboard and a full set of parameter knobs. This was considered to be DSI's flagship product at the time it was introduced. The mono and poly keyboard versions were originally made with rotary encoder controls for the variable parameters. These had the advantage that when editing a patch, the control always started with the current stored value of the parameter, instead of "jumping" to a potentiometer value. However, the rotary encoders used had reliability problems, and many perfomers disliked them. Hence, the keyboards were subsequently offered in a "PE" (for Potentiometer Edition) version, and some existing keyboards with the rotary encoders were converted by the factory to the PE version. All four versions are now out of production. The mono keyboard and poly rack versions were discontinued in 2012; manufacturing of the poly keyboard version ended in 2013. The original desktop mono version finally went out of production in 2015.
- The virtual-reality arcade combat game Evolver is all the rage, and Kyle's score is on top of the country charts. So, logically, he's the one chosen to test a real-life version of the game that the company just came up with. They deliver him a small robot, the titular Evolver, and a few innocuous laser-pointer guns to fight it with. At first everything goes fine and everyone has a ton of fun, but after a while Evolver reverts to deeper, far more dangerous programming: he upgrades his weapons and goes on a rampage, killing several people and almost succeeding in killing Kyle's sister until he's disabled by Kyle. The robot is carried away and everyone resumes their normal lives, but only briefly: during transit Evolver reactivates, and refusing to acknowledge defeat he switches into combat mode and looks for revenge...
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