[sdiy] Superwave P8

[Paul Maddox]

Hi,

>>I did like the Korg Polysix's unison mode though. That had six VCOs
>>tracking each other. Its a simple mod to make the unison tuning
>>controllable too.
>
> The DW-6000/8000 also do this trick. Some patches aren't interesting, some
> are incredibly huge. DCO's are great at this sort of thing since the
> detuning is rock-steady.

I loved this kinda feature, so when I started a polysynth, I decided it 
would be one of the 'essentials' I'd include.
With 'Phoenix' you can put all 6 voice in unison mode, each voice has 3 
oscillators,
But you can 'fan-out' the oscillators (like the JP8) and detune them, *BUT* 
the fan-out on phoenix also detunes the filter cutoff a little aswell (which 
gives filter sweeps a bit more of an intersting sound)..

Two examples of phoenix in this mode -

Without Chorus (and showing the 'spread' control, starts with a little and 
gets silly then goes back to a little) -
http://www.chameleon.synth.net/projects/phoenix/audio/unison.mp3

with Chorus -
http://www.chameleon.synth.net/projects/phoenix/audio/unison_chorus.mp3

Great for those BIG 'in-your-face' moments, but a bit much for use 
throughtout the whole tune.
If 6 voices stacked is too much, you can choose how many voices to stack, so 
you can have any of the following modes.

Poly mode - 6 voices
Duo phonic mode - 3 voices per note
triphonic mode - 2 voices per note
solo mode - 1 voice
Stack mode - 2 to 6 voices

All of the 'multiple voice' modes have the 'spread' function as an option.

I'll also want to include a couple of different key assignment modes, 
('steal' and 'dont steal')..
Eventually I want to make this 8 voice so there will be a further keyboard 
mode added.

for more demo sounds and info have read here ;-
http://www.chameleon.synth.net/projects/phoenix/

Oh, and BTW, its DSP :-)

Paul