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Subject: Re: [PolySix] anyone have an IC6 (key assigner 8049 217) left over from KIWI install?

From: Florian Anwander <fanwander@mnet-online.de>
Date: 2015-12-18

Hello J,

you are of course right about how wonderful the arpeggiator in the P6
is, but still there is the question: what soundgenerator do you want to
control with it? You have to rebuild the complete Voiceboard including
the VCOs!

The CPU and the D/A converter output a multiplexed "nearly V/Oct"
voltage without any trimming. If you control a normal CV-Synth with this
voltage, it will sound like "cats chant" (german saying). The trimming
happens within a common exponentiator for all voices and then is
demulitiplexed as six V/Hz voltages. The VCOs of the P6 are V/Hz (this
is, why the P6 is that amazing stable in relative tune).


If you want the P6-Arpeggiator and want it to send MIDI-NOtes, then get
the tubbutec CPU for the P6 (https://tubbutec.de/modypoly/). You may use
it nearly standalone and it will send the Arpeggio via MIDI-Out and(!)
will read the notes from MIDI-In.

Florian




Am 18.12.2015 um 17:17 schrieb James Matthew Smith
jmsmatthewsmith@gmail.com [PolySix]:
>
> To be honest to you too, I personally find the polysix arpeggiator to
> be very unique in the way that it chooses notes when multiple ranges
> of octaves are held down.
>