has anyone using 0S 2.1 had polyphony issues other than me?

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has anyone using 0S 2.1 had polyphony issues other than me?

By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:51 pm
i'm definitely not getting my 32 samples at once. im not even using stereo samples and all my samples are set to poly. this has been annoying me for a while and ive been working around it. does 3.0 improve upon this at all? anyone else feel me on this?

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By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:01 pm
Mr modnaR wrote:
ROCKNOID wrote:i'm definitely not getting my 32 samples at once. im not even using stereo samples and all my samples are set to poly. this has been annoying me for a while and ive been working around it. does 3.0 improve upon this at all? anyone else feel me on this?



are you saying setting some to mono should help? ive tried that with no luck, also some folks on here have told me to keep them all on poly. what are you saying specifically?

By ucacjbs Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:03 pm
How many of your samples have long silent 'tails' on them? If they do, then you're using up polyphony playing silence.
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Re: has anyone using 0S 2.1 had polyphony issues other than

By Mr modnaR Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:10 pm
ROCKNOID wrote:are you saying setting some to mono should help? ive tried that with no luck, also some folks on here have told me to keep them all on poly. what are you saying specifically?


well if you have a kick drum sample that's 1 second long, but the sound only lasts for 1/10th of a second, and you play three kicks in quick succession, say three in 1/2 a second, you'll use up 6 voices (if the sample is stereo). you can see now that having a few kicks snares and hats playing at once (even though the sounds don't overlap) can eat your polyphony for breakfast!

like ucacjbs says, you have to make sure that you trim your samples down to the absolue minimum to free up voices again.

using mono means that, for that pad if you repeatedly hit that pad, the sample will be cut off by subsequent versions of itself.

hope you understand what i'm trying to say.

peace

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By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:17 pm
using mono means that, for that pad if you repeatedly hit that pad, the sample will be cut off by subsequent versions of itself.

hope you understand what i'm trying to say.

peace[/quote]


thanks for the schooling

By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:20 pm
ucacjbs wrote:How many of your samples have long silent 'tails' on them? If they do, then you're using up polyphony playing silence.


that's an interesting point - i'll look at the samples in the beat im having the problem with. i do leave silence at the end of samples sometimes.
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By Antonym Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:57 pm
rocknoid - i've read your other posts. people have definitely NOT told you to keep it in poly.
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By Mr modnaR Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:01 pm
Antonym wrote:rocknoid - i've read your other posts. people have definitely NOT told you to keep it in poly.


ok ok ok, i got a joke for y'all:

Q: what do you do with parrot food?

A: wait for it, waaait for iiit.....keep it in poly.
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By Antonym Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:12 pm
oh my god
that was so horrible
and the worst thing is, now i have to go weed the corn
and it's gonna be stuck in my head, cuz that's what happens to me
dammit modnar

By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:15 pm
Antonym wrote:rocknoid - i've read your other posts. people have definitely NOT told you to keep it in poly.


then maybe i've interpreted someones suggestion wrong... someone asked me if all my samples were in poly, i thought they were suggesting that they should be...that's insignificant..i've tried changing all or some of the samples to mono with the same result. the suggestion about the silence at the end of the sample may be the solution, i still have to try it.

By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:17 pm
Mr modnaR wrote:
Antonym wrote:rocknoid - i've read your other posts. people have definitely NOT told you to keep it in poly.


ok ok ok, i got a joke for y'all:

Q: what do you do with parrot food?

A: wait for it, waaait for iiit.....keep it in poly.


more wise words

By ROCKNOID Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:18 pm
Mr modnaR wrote:
Antonym wrote:rocknoid - i've read your other posts. people have definitely NOT told you to keep it in poly.


ok ok ok, i got a joke for y'all:

Q: what do you do with parrot food?

A: wait for it, waaait for iiit.....keep it in poly.


more wise words
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By Mr modnaR Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:26 pm
Antonym wrote:oh my god
that was so horrible
and the worst thing is, now i have to go weed the corn
and it's gonna be stuck in my head, cuz that's what happens to me
dammit modnar


it's ok i just washed my mouth out with soap.

By tank Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:50 pm
32 voices = 32 simultaneous mono sounds or 16 simultaneous stereo sounds i think, but i never tried it myself.

Just has an example: If you have a pad with all four layers playing a long stereo samples in POLY mode if you press the pad 4 times in a row it will get to the limit of polyphony.
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