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What are the most common/traditional/best ways to achieve more than
monophonic sound on a modular?

Thanks!!!
Todd

To do polyphony right, first you need a polyphonic CV/gate source. True
1V/Oct keyboards were complicated to produce and rare until Emu invented the
microprocessor scanned keyboard. They licensed their design to Oberheim,
then other dedicated synths built them in. Now days, just use a MIDI/CV
converter like the Kentons or the Expressionist that support polyphony.

That's half the story. Now you need a minimum of 1 VCO, 1 VCA, and 1 EG per
polyphonic voice. You'll probably want at least 2 VCOs and a VCF to get to
the traditional complement found in a zillion dedicated polyphonics like a
Prophet.


Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> From: "Tentochi" <tentochi@...>
>
> What are the most common/traditional/best ways to achieve more than
> monophonic sound on a modular?
>
> Thanks!!!
> Todd
>

You build multiple same "voices" (VCO>>VCF>>VCA) and use a multi-chaneel
MIDI-CV converter
(PRO2000) and that's it.

That's how poly synths are: 8 copies of the same circuit all in parallel.

Of course in a modular, each voice can be different! (multi-timbral).

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tentochi <tentochi@...>
To: MOTM Mailing List <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 5:32 PM
Subject: [motm] modular polyphony

>From: "Tentochi" <tentochi@...>
>
>What are the most common/traditional/best ways to achieve more than
>monophonic sound on a modular?
>
>Thanks!!!
>Todd
>
>
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What about not letting the MIDI-CV converter do the work? What about the
days when there wasn't MIDI?
--Todd

> You build multiple same "voices" (VCO>>VCF>>VCA) and use a multi-chaneel
> MIDI-CV converter
> (PRO2000) and that's it.
> That's how poly synths are: 8 copies of the same circuit all in parallel.
> Of course in a modular, each voice can be different! (multi-timbral).
> Paul S.
> >What are the most common/traditional/best ways to achieve more than
> >monophonic sound on a modular?
> >Todd