By motosega
Thu Nov 19, 2015 1:33 am
from the greek:
poly = many
phony = sounds
polyphony refers to how many simultaneous sounds a synth can produce.
a mini moog can only play one note at a time so it is said to be monophonic.
the mpc500 is 32 note polyphonic so that means it can play 32 samples at a time.
on the mpc500 you can set each pad to mono or poly.
in mono mode when you press the pad the first time it plays the sample, but if you press it a second time whilst the sound is still playing then it cuts off the sample and plays it again from the begining.
in poly mode, it continues playing the fisrt note and plays the sucessive note without cutting off the first.
its easy to see that in poly mode you can run out of polyphony pretty fast.
poly = many
phony = sounds
polyphony refers to how many simultaneous sounds a synth can produce.
a mini moog can only play one note at a time so it is said to be monophonic.
the mpc500 is 32 note polyphonic so that means it can play 32 samples at a time.
on the mpc500 you can set each pad to mono or poly.
in mono mode when you press the pad the first time it plays the sample, but if you press it a second time whilst the sound is still playing then it cuts off the sample and plays it again from the begining.
in poly mode, it continues playing the fisrt note and plays the sucessive note without cutting off the first.
its easy to see that in poly mode you can run out of polyphony pretty fast.