--- Paul Bentley wrote: > How important is polyphony with regard to a brain... Depends. If you were to layer every voice on every pad, you end up using a lot of voices. For example, I have three stereo cymbals, so each pad has two voices - six overall. But each of those voices has two layers, so I'm actually using twelve "polyphony" voices on those cymbals alone - and because of sustain, they could well be sounding simultaneously. Now look at all the pads... three "triple zone", five stereo, and two mono. That makes a grand total of 42 "polyphony" voices. You'd have to move faster than me to get them all to sound simultaneously, mind. You can hear the effect of this if you play along with any of the built-in songs (sad, but I do from time to time), because they all use voices too. When doing so, cymbal, crashes often choke early because the brain has run out of voices. I can't imagine managing on 16... Stewart
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Re: Polyphony?
2003-09-05 by moosetication