[ddots-l] software synthesizers and polyfony
- From: Scott Lawlor <sklawlor@xxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:40:25 -0500
Hello.
I've traded in my kurzweil pc3 and am considering a Dave Smith Instruments poly
evolver
which doesn't have very many menus, if any at all, has 78 knobs and 57
switches for real-time control of every parameter. This is the sort of
thing that will probably suit me best because of that hands-on feel that is
so important for my being able to create and shape sound.
Here's my question.
I'm told that this board can also be a midi controller for software synths
like dimension pro and since the board itself has only 4-voices of
polyphony, do the software synths have their own internal polyphony or do
they depend on the number of voices from the midi instrument controlling
them?
The best way around this polyphonic limitation, as far as I can see is to
just do a lot of audio tracking in sonar, which for ambient and space music,
probably isn't as dependent on things like quantization since a lot of the
sort of stuff I want to venture into either isn't very melodic or is driven
by arpeggios.
Having said that, I have written a good bit of melodic stuff that uses more
natural sounding instruments, thus my questions about polyphony related to
soft synths.
I like the natural sounds and orchestral rom in the kurzweil but since
having two boards isn't an option for me right now and the pc3 doesn't have
all the cool electronic sounds and it's got too many menus, especially since
I like the instant gratification of turning a knob or hitting a switch and
hearing something different that could inspire further creativity, this is
why I'm considering this other synth.
Thanks for your thoughts on all this.
Scott
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