After helping Roger Linn on his line of AdrenaLinn guitar effects pedals, he got interested in hardware again and eventually decided to start producing a new line of hardware synthesizers, partly because of seeing how soft synths are now easily "ripped off.

[1] The name Evolver is because the synthesizers sound is constantly changing, subtly or dramatically.

[2] While creating sound presets to demonstrate the synthesizer at the NAMM tradeshow, he was impressed by the "organic" nature of the synthesizer's sound, his wife, Denise, came up with the more aptly suited name, Evolver.

The two analog oscillators provide classic waveforms; saw, triangle, saw-triangle, and pulse (which can be turned into a square wave at a value of 50%).

Unless programmed otherwise (split), the two analog filters each retain the same settings, thus processing the audio in both channels identically.

Some of the analog components of the Evolver cannot handle some of the incredibly high frequencies of the LFOs due to limitations in the control voltage speeds.

The effects available in the Evolver include distortion, delay, hack, feedback, and grunge.

There is also an option to create independent stereo feedback loops, which is routed through the filter.

If feedback is modulated correctly, the user can create cyclic effects similar to flange or chorus.