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[[File:Polyphonic_patch.gif|thumb|right|400px|Patch for polyphony.

Green is a gate signal.

*Green is a gate signal.

Orange is a contoured cv such as an envelope, slewed or random cv.

*Orange is a contoured cv such as an envelope, slewed or random cv.

Cyan is the amplitude/VCA block.

*Cyan is the amplitude/VCA block.

Magenta is the filter block.

*Magenta is the filter block.

~~Brick~~ Red is the pitch signal and pitch block.

*Red is the pitch signal and pitch block.

Purple is the waveshaping block.

*Purple is the waveshaping block.

Blue is audio.]]

*Blue is audio.]]

'''Polyphony''' is needed to play multiple notes which don't cut each other off and act as true independent voices each with their own controllable parameters. Polyphony is the ability to play multiple independent voices simultaneously, and requires enough oscillators, envelopes, filters, VCAs and other modules to build an entire voice block for each simultaneous note required. this is expensive and also requires a polyphonic [[sequencer]] source to provide multiple independent pitch, gate and other cv's.

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 [[File:Polyphonic_patch.gif|thumb|right|400px|Patch for polyphony.
-<span style="color:#00ff00"> Green </span> is a gate signal.
+*<span style="color:#00ff00">Green</span> is a gate signal.
-<span style="color:#ff8c00"> Orange </span> is a contoured cv such as an envelope, slewed or random cv.
+*<span style="color:#ff8c00">Orange</span> is a contoured cv such as an envelope, slewed or random cv.
-<span style="color:#00ffff"> Cyan </span> is the amplitude/VCA block.
+*<span style="color:#00ffff">Cyan</span> is the amplitude/VCA block.
-<span style="color:#ff00ff"> Magenta </span> is the filter block.
+*<span style="color:#ff00ff">Magenta</span> is the filter block.
-<span style="color:#dc143c"> Brick Red </span> is the pitch signal and pitch block.
+*<span style="color:#dc143c">Red</span> is the pitch signal and pitch block.
-<span style="color:#800080"> Purple </span> is the waveshaping block.
+*<span style="color:#800080">Purple</span> is the waveshaping block.
-<span style="color:#0000ff"> Blue </span> is audio.]]
+*<span style="color:#0000ff">Blue</span> is audio.]]
 '''Polyphony''' is needed to play multiple notes which don't cut each other off and act as true independent voices each with their own controllable parameters. Polyphony is the ability to play multiple independent voices simultaneously, and requires enough oscillators, envelopes, filters, VCAs and other modules to build an entire voice block for each simultaneous note required. this is expensive and also requires a polyphonic [[sequencer]] source to provide multiple independent pitch, gate and other cv's.

Polyphony: Difference between revisions

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