emusonacid!

Remember a year or so back when I figured out stereo samples eat up half my polyphony and caused my filters go bananas? Since then, I do things mono. My filters don't freak out anymore and, well, I have polyphony up the arse...

so...

I tried something...

Something terrible...

Maybe even exciting....

Insane could be another word for it...

What did I do? (oh dear god you going to love this)

I made a patch using no less then 64 VOICES...

Nothing but saw waves each detuned by 1 value of the ftune setting... voice 2 is set at 1, voice 3 at 2 and so on...

I ran my samples mono.

I play one note... just one key and I look into my channel volume in the master's section. This, I would assume would show you your poly...

And...

Well...

I don't know how to say this....

but... ahem....

My poly only showed about 70 percent usage....

I could actually play a triad.... That, should have equalled 212 voices at once. There also appeared to be no drop out either.. unless. I hit a fourth note and then I got like 4 voices going...

So... what is my bird's poly(wants a cracker)? I expected it to be full when I hit the first note but it wasn't. So I am confused again. I only loaded one sample and just copied the voice over and over again until I hit 64 voices. Maybe that has something to do with it... It's just strange.

Oh, and if you have time to kill, try doing what I did. The sound I got was incredible... The bass hit so hard and the midrange of it sounded like a tb 303 or something. It almost sounded like I applied a bunch of Q to the sound but I hadn't.

I would actually like to use the sound in a song... I could resample, but it has alot of modulations going on as you hold the note and I would lose that if I resampled the sound. I can almost play a single break ontop of it... but some of the notes get cut short.

Crazy stuff... Still learning stuff on this thing.

snh