2006-04-04 by J.D. McEachin
At 08:43 AM 4/4/2006 -0500, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>> Sounds like it. The Oddysey did it by setting one oscillator to respond
>> to the high note and one to the low note. So if you hit only one key,
>> you got both, but if you hit more than that, the highest went to one,
>> the lowest to the other. Will unison do that high/low allocation?
>> When you're using two similar oscillators, it's no big deal, but when
>> one is FMing, ring modulating, or synched to the other, that's where
>> the magic happens and why it's important that one is consistantly high
>> and one consistantly low. Did that explain it?
>
>Yes, I need to check with the programmer if the stealing is the based on
>position (hi/lo) or not.
All of the polyphonic modes allocate voices based on order played.
Poly1, Poly2, and Unison give priority to the first N notes played (where
N = the total number of voices). This is the way almost every polysynth
ever made works. The various Steal modes (Poly1 St., Poly2 St., & Unison
St.) give priority to the last N notes played.
To answer the original question, it's easy to make one voice consistently
high and one consistently low by playing consistently. A quick roll of
the fingers will make either the low or the high notes first. I'm not a
very good player, but I've been able to get consistent results doing this
w/ an arpeggiator that played notes based on order.
Jeffrey