Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

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Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By kazakore Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:14 pm
Anybody else noticed the portamento on the Odyssey synth doesn't work properly to higher note? If you hold a high note and tap a low note you get the glides down and back on release as expected. If you try this holding a low note and tapping a higher note it doesn't work as expected. I guess this would have to be reported to WayOutWare and not Akai though....

Re: Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By misfit Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:46 pm
The Odyssey plugin,when you switched in Mono mode, has Low Note priority on both oscillators, so yeah it's expected behavior.
All mono synths have a specific priority to trigger new notes, either low-note/high-note/last-note. Last note is what we expect on modern synths.
I'm not too familiar with original Arp synths, but I seem to remember it had low-note priority on vco1 and high-note priority on vco2,

Re: Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By HouseWithoutMouse Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:59 pm
Sorry this is not entirely related, but is there a way to get the Odyssey's mod-wheel pitch modulation to center on the note pitch, "bi-polar" style, and not positive upwards only? It seems that mod wheel pitch modulation only makes the pitch go up from zero, so it's useless for a lot of stuff because it sounds sharp, out of tune. I don't have access to a real Odyssey, but I heard that a real one's LFO doesn't have this issue.

Re: Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By misfit Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:29 pm
Lampdog wrote:Yep!



Cool, thanks. I just tried it out in DUO mode, and it works on the plug-in; you can actually do some pretty fun stuff with that.

Re: Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By misfit Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:56 pm
HouseWithoutMouse wrote:Sorry this is not entirely related, but is there a way to get the Odyssey's mod-wheel pitch modulation to center on the note pitch, "bi-polar" style, and not positive upwards only? It seems that mod wheel pitch modulation only makes the pitch go up from zero, so it's useless for a lot of stuff because it sounds sharp, out of tune. I don't have access to a real Odyssey, but I heard that a real one's LFO doesn't have this issue.

Indeed that does seem like a bug, I notice the same.
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Re: Odyssey Portamento doesn't work up

By Lampdog Sun Aug 27, 2023 12:05 am
misfit wrote:
Lampdog wrote:Yep!



Cool, thanks. I just tried it out in DUO mode, and it works on the plug-in; you can actually do some pretty fun stuff with that.

The plug-in does a pretty good recreation of the OG plus some other things. I use that plug in alot too.
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