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Re: [motm] Polyphony in your systems

2006-02-27 by Scott Juskiw

>How many voices do you typically have in your system? I am not 
>talking about a synth voice plus a drum voice plus a drone, I mean 
>real VCO-VCF-VCA voices. I have 3 now and am shooting for 4. Both of 
>mine have the following set up:
>
>MOTM-300 VCO
>MOTM-310 VCO (2 arriving this week to be built)
>MOTM-420 VCF
>MOTM-440 VCF
>MOTM-110 VCA (1 has Oakley VCA but sounds the same)
>2 x MOTM-800 ADSR
>

Somewhere between 8 and 12. But I don't use my modular synth for 
creating basic VCO-VCF-VCA type sounds. There are lots of other 
synths that can do this well, are both polyphonic and programmable. 
For me, the joy of modular synths is that you can create sounds 
outside the realm of VCO-VCF-VCA, sounds that you can't create on 
those other synths.

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