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Hello all. I've just taken a bass sound on the AN1x and started 
fiddling around with it, as you do of an evening. I noticed that when 
you have one key pressed down, if you press another no note is 
triggered. I thought it might be due to the fact that it was in mono 
or legato mode, so I changed that to Poly and, just to avoid any 
other complications, I made sure Portamento was off and I switched 
Layer from Unison Dual to plain old Single. And yet the situation 
remains - I can play a three-note chord, say, but when I go to change 
one of the notes (with the others still pressed down), I get no noise 
from that new key.

I've fiddled around with some of the parameters, opening up the VCA 
and VCF envelopes, for example, but that doesn't alter it either.

I've probably overlooked something simple here, as usual. Any ideas, 
clever people?

Cheers,
Martin

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "martinez21" <martin@b...> wrote:
> Hello all. I've just taken a bass sound on the AN1x and started 
> fiddling around with it, as you do of an evening. I noticed that when 
> you have one key pressed down, if you press another no note is 
> triggered. I thought it might be due to the fact that it was in mono 
> or legato mode, so I changed that to Poly and, just to avoid any 
> other complications, I made sure Portamento was off and I switched 
> Layer from Unison Dual to plain old Single. And yet the situation 
> remains - I can play a three-note chord, say, but when I go to change 
> one of the notes (with the others still pressed down), I get no noise 
> from that new key.
> 
> I've fiddled around with some of the parameters, opening up the VCA 
> and VCF envelopes, for example, but that doesn't alter it either.
> 
> I've probably overlooked something simple here, as usual. Any ideas, 
> clever people?
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin

Martin,

From your problem description I would hazard a guess you're not editing the Scene 
you intended to - double check the Voice is not in Dual mode. I often overlook Dual 
Mode and wonder why my edits are not effective - typically I'm editing the wrong 
Scene in my Voice.

If the problem persists, and you've double checked the Mode is Poly -not Mono or 
Legato - then I would suggest reinitializing the AN1x to it's factory default settings.

Jon

> From your problem description I would hazard a guess you're not 
editing the Scene 
> you intended to

No, I made sure of that too, and double checked that Mode is in 
Poly... it was very odd, I must say

> If the problem persists... then I would suggest reinitializing the 
AN1x to it's factory default settings.

Yes, I guess so. *sigh* The interesting thing is that it works fine 
on other patches, it was just this one, the "Manna" preset (with, 
like I say, everything switched to the simplest mode - Arp/Seq=off, 
Mode=Poly, Layer=Single, Scene=the one I'm tweaking). And 
initialising fills me with a certain ennui, as me and mes amis 
Monsieur Computer and Mademoiselle AnnieX are having a few problems 
with AN1xEdit, the cheeky scamp, so saving patches is something of a 
bête noire chez moi at the moment.

Oh well. I'll pour myself another martini and contemplate life 
instead.

Yours gauchely,
Martin