AW: AW: Keyboard/Midi Frontend (RE: PolyModular Standards)

[Hugo Haesaert]

Hi All !

Lots of good ideas here :)

Juergen is right to go for more individual function 
switches/controls, more expensive all round, but so much better is 
use, i'm sure .

If i ever would build such a machine, i'd go for a six voice one, i 
still like t pickup a guitar from time to time, and controlling 
synths with it is just plain nice .  With this talk of unison/poly 
mode, i'd like to plead for a mono mode, with six subsequent midi 
channels used .  Should give pitchbend by channel/voice/string .

And please, do not forget about poly aftertouch .  I use an Ensoniq 
EPS16+ as my master kbd, for this very reason, can be abit fiddely to 
get the response just right, but it's worth it ;-)

The Oberheim Xpander has some good and usable ideas on voice 
allocation and such .

Btw, have you had a look at the ETI/Powertran polyphonic ?  Up to 8 
voices (4 in the basic unit) no microprocessor :), but the voices are 
based on the CEM ics .  And no autotune, if i remembercorrectly .  
Dunno if the articles are on the web .

Later


Keep 'em oscillating :)


Hugo
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