Monophonic leads

Sk · 24 Apr 2005

I usually hate to bump, but if I'm not gonna know this I'll spend 1,400Eur over a PSR-3000! 😉 Any info?

stefan · 24 Apr 2005

I actually didn't understand your question. What do you mean when you say that it generates different attack phases dependant on the number of keys simultaneously pressed?

Atm you CAN do monophonic synths, but the midi handling isn't quite up to the task atm. Some more midi logic components and a midi2mono could be good to have. I have posted a small example of monophonic stuff earlier on: Portamento

No doubt this area will soon improve in SM.

Sk · 24 Apr 2005

Thanx a lot! The idea is that! Is it possible to have a mono version of the inbuilt oscillators? This would make the deal much simpler!

Shifrin · 25 Apr 2005

You could have a look at :-

Coding mono oscillators

For some 'code component' code for simple mono oscillators (heavy aliasing though but fine to play around with!!!).

Shif.

Sk · 25 Apr 2005

Still it doesn't work as I hoped 🙁

If I hold two notes contemporarily, I get an oscillation at a frequency that is the sum of the two. This shouldn't happen, since the inputs are taken as mono, am I right? Then what's wrong?

stefan · 25 Apr 2005

Sk wrote: Still it doesn't work as I hoped 🙁

If I hold two notes contemporarily, I get an oscillation at a frequency that is the sum of the two. This shouldn't happen, since the inputs are taken as mono, am I right? Then what's wrong?

At the moment, that was the only solution I could come up with. We'd need a midi2mono to make it work as it should.

Btw, what did you mean by "generating different attack phases when two or more keys are pressed simultaneously. "?

lalo · 26 Apr 2005

stefancrs wrote: Sk wrote: Still it doesn't work as I hoped 🙁

If I hold two notes contemporarily, I get an oscillation at a frequency that is the sum of the two. This shouldn't happen, since the inputs are taken as mono, am I right? Then what's wrong?

At the moment, that was the only solution I could come up with. We'd need a midi2mono to make it work as it should.

Btw, what did you mean by "generating different attack phases when two or more keys are pressed simultaneously. "?

maybe i'm wrong...but i think he refers to 'legato' playing when you trigger one note after another (while the first is released after the second one is triggered) the adsr (or other stuff like lfo or whatever) doesn't initialize itself

i'm i right SK?

lalo

stefan · 26 Apr 2005

lalo wrote: stefancrs wrote: Sk wrote: Still it doesn't work as I hoped 🙁

If I hold two notes contemporarily, I get an oscillation at a frequency that is the sum of the two. This shouldn't happen, since the inputs are taken as mono, am I right? Then what's wrong?

At the moment, that was the only solution I could come up with. We'd need a midi2mono to make it work as it should.

Btw, what did you mean by "generating different attack phases when two or more keys are pressed simultaneously. "?

maybe i'm wrong...but i think he refers to 'legato' playing when you trigger one note after another (while the first is released after the second one is triggered) the adsr (or other stuff like lfo or whatever) doesn't initialize itself

i'm i right SK?

lalo

Ok, just a normal monophonic behaviour then 🙂 good 🙂

Sk · 26 Apr 2005

Yes, lalo, sort of. I heard this in Yamaha PSR-3000, but I think it's standard for monophonic leads in synths. The classic portamento would mean that no attack is generated for the notes after the first one; in this very case, instead, if you hold, say, a C4 and press a D3, the sound frequency goes to D3, BUT there's a short transition in the sound, not just like a pitch bend: it's like an attack phase, but not the one you expect when you start a note.

Am I made meself understood? 😉