Voice Management

Voice limits

Voices are limited at three levels:

• Engine: 512 voices in total.
• Part: the voice limit button on the part card, from 4 to 512.
• Group: the polyphony button in GROUP SETTINGS, available in Poly and Piano mode. PART means the group has no limit of its own; otherwise choose from 1 to 64 voices.

When a limit is reached, the oldest voice is stolen. Released voices are stolen before held ones.

Exclusive groups

The exclusive group button in GROUP SETTINGS puts groups in a choke group. It reads OFF until a number is chosen. When a group starts a voice, voices in other groups with the same exclusive group number are quickly faded out. Choose New Group to create a new number.

Group settings

The rest of the GROUP SETTINGS card applies to all selected groups:

• Volume, up to +12 dB, and Pan
• Tuning: -24 to +24 semitones.
• PB: pitch bend range down and up, 0 to 48 keys. Zones use this unless they set their own.

The group ROUTING pane also has:

• Vel: velocity sensitivity for the group.
• HQ: oversampling for the group and its zones. Click to step through HQ: OFF, HQ: ON and HQ: AUTO, or right-click for a menu.
  • Off (1x): never oversamples.
  • On (2x): always runs the group and its zones at twice the sample rate. The default for new groups.
  • Auto (2x when pitched up): oversamples only a voice pitched up far enough to alias. Imported instruments use this.

Sounding groups

While a group is producing sound, its row in the group and zone tree shows a speaker. The speaker stays lit while the group’s processors ring out after its voices end.