[sdiy] Six/6 voice synths

[Florian Anwander]

Hi Tom

> Just a quick question; Is there any technical reason why so many 
> polyphonic synths have six voices?
I am not too deep into the programming aspect of a polysynth, but beside
the marktting and price aspect, there might be a technical aspect. If
you have to distribute the values for only six voices to the S&H-stages,
you have two steps in the adressing cycle, which could be used for
something else. Example at the JX3P the adress #06 and #07 address
parameters which are common to all voices: DCO-fine tune, DCO-balance,
resonance and highpass filter cutoff.

Florian