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Voice assignment mod

Voice assignment modes

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Unison [unison LED lit solid]

Unison [unison LED lit solid]
Pressing the UNISON

UNISON

button once lights the UNISON

UNISON

LED solid and puts the board in UNISON

UNISON

mode. UNISON

UNISON

Is a polyphonic mode, meaning more than one note can be played at a time. The idea

behind UNISON

UNISON

is to make the fattest sound possible. The UNISON

UNISON

mode works like SOLO

SOLO

UNISON

for the first note played, then things start getting strange. If two or more notes are being

played, the voices divide between the notes played. Since the number of different voices available
depends on if the board is in WHOLE

WHOLE

or SPLIT

SPLIT

mode, the number of voices per note depends on the

KEY MODE

as well. It is confusing, so here is a table to make it easier to understand:

WHOLE

WHOLE SPLIT

SPLIT 4

SPLIT 2

1 Key – All 6 voices

1 Key - 4 Voices

1 Key - 2 Voices

2 Keys - 3 Voices each

2 Keys - 2 Voices each

2 Keys - 1 Voice each

3 Keys - 2 Voices each

3-4 Keys- 1 Voice each

4-6 Keys- 1 Voice each

If more keys are held down than there are voices available, then only the first voices will play. For
example, in WHOLE

WHOLE

mode, only the first six notes will be played. The seventh note will play when one

of the first six notes is released. When the seventh note sounds, it will not retrigger the envelope. This is
useful for subtle changes to the color of a chord. As with SOLO UNISON

SOLO UNISON

, the UNISON DETUNE

UNISON DETUNE

knob will make the sound fatter.

Unison steal [unison LED blinking

Unison steal [unison LED blinking

Unison steal [unison LED blinking]]]]
Pressing the UNISON

UNISON

button a second time makes the LED blink and puts the board in UNISON

UNISON

STEAL

mode. It is just like UNISON

UNISON

mode, until more notes than there are available voices are played.

Then, the oldest note playing has its voice stolen to play the new note. For instance, in WHOLE

WHOLE

mode,

when the seventh note is played, it plays, but the first note goes silent. The second note goes silent to play
the eighth note, and so on. Each new note retriggers the envelope with a new ATTACK

ATTACK

. Now, if a note is

released while the first and second notes are still held, the second note will sound. Release another key
and the first note will sound. The notes that have their voice stolen and get replayed will not retrigger the
envelopes. The STEAL

STEAL

modes are great for playing chords. If voice watch is enabled, a winking LED will

indicate the stolen voice(s).

Poly 1 [Poly 1 LED lit solid]

Poly 1 [Poly 1 LED lit solid]
Pressing the POLY 1

POLY 1

button once lights the LED and puts the board in POLY 1

POLY 1

mode. POLY 1

POLY 1

Mode

is another polyphonic mode, and is designed to preserve a note's RELEASE

RELEASE

as long as possible. Here is

an example of how it works: If A B C D E F are played in WHOLE

WHOLE

mode, releasing the keys in reverse

order (F E D C B A) will cause the next allocated voice to be F. That is because it has been released the
longest, so it has the best chance of having completed the RELEASE

RELEASE

cycle of its envelopes. As with

UNISON

mode, when too many notes are played, the later notes will not sound, at least until one or

more of the other notes playing are released.

Poly 1 steal [Poly 1 LED blinking]

Poly 1 steal [Poly 1 LED blinking]
Pressing the POLY 1

POLY 1

button a second time blinks the LED and puts the board in POLY STEAL

POLY STEAL

mode.

It works like the POLY 1

POLY 1

mode until there are no free allocated voices. Then, like UNISON

UNISON

STEAL

, it

will steal the earliest note's voice to play the new note. If voice watch is enabled, the stolen voice will be
indicated by a LED wink on that voice.

Poly 2 [Poly 2 LED lit solid]

Poly 2 [Poly 2 LED lit solid]
Pressing POLY 2

POLY 2

lights the LED and puts the board in POLY 2

POLY 2

mode. POLY 2

POLY 2

Is, as the name

implies, polyphonic, and is designed for use with PORTAMENTO

PORTAMENTO

. If a chord is played, then release the

notes and play a new chord. The notes of the new chord will be reassigned to the same voices. Normally
this just means that the RELEASE

RELEASE

of the notes gets cut off, but if PORTAMENTO

PORTAMENTO

is on, a super cool

polyphonic glide sound will be heard that will make you the envy of your friends! POLY 2

POLY 2

, Like POLY

POLY

and UNISON

UNISON

, does nothing when more notes are played than allocatable.