Jens M Andreasen wrote: > I think the latter could be more expressive when there are no more > voices than you can easily direct with a single two-handed chord, to get > in control of the stage again. Six voices would pretty good for that, > but I remember five like the Prophet had was annoying. Or that at least > I got lost fighting my own clumpsyness.
I misunderstood. Okay, even if a limit is wanted, the limit should have a limit for being a limit ;). Sometimes the Prophet 5 can be a pain, when you like to have no cuts, but clean crossings from one 3-voice-chord to another 3-chord voice. In practise the change from one 3-voice-chord to another often means only to change two of the three notes, while 1 note still is held and because of the 2 + 4 split issue, in practise often 4-voice-chords are just played by 3-voices and in addition the bass adds the fourth voice. Maybe this was Sequential's intent. The Prophet 5 originally doesn't ship with MIDI, while later synth like the Oberheim Matrix-1000 have MIDI, so it became interesting of taking care that guitars have 6 strings, even if 80ies synth Pickups were unusable, dunno if it's better today. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
