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Hi Dan !
welcome to the club ...

dan a \ufffdcrit :
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> Hi, i'm interested in buying this fantastic synth, and i read that 
> AN1x got 2 parts with 5 + 5 notes.
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That's true : either 10 notes on "single" patches or 5 + 5. 
Unfortunately there is no dynamic allocation of the polyphony depending 
on how and what you play, for ex. you have 5 notes on your left hand, 
you play a single note bass line, that does not give you more than 5 
notes on the right hand.
The AN1x keyboard has 3 modes : polyphonic, legato (2 notes max.) and 
mono, as a lot of synths.
Legato and mono are useful to emulate huge monosynths of yesterdays

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> I would like to know if:
> - i can use 2 completely different patches
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Yes . For ex. you want to play "strings" chords with your left hand 
while soloing with some weird synth patch with the right one, and you 
have both patches somewhere in your synth or your computer. Copy each 
one to one "scene" of some empty or useless memory , and it's done. Then 
you can split the keyboard as you want.
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> - i can sequence these 2 parts with 2 midi channels
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I'm afraid not, but i've never tried it. The internal sequencer or 
arpeggiator can be assigned to the right or left part of the keyboard at 
will. If i remember well the 2 "scenes" share the same MIDI channel number.
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> - i can easily split and assign these parts to the keyboard
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Yes. You can assign one scene to the right part of the keyboard, and the 
other...to the other, and set the split point where you want (default 
C3). Or even swap them.
One interesting feature with these "scenes", plus the split - layer 
possibility, is to "morph" between both scenes once you've assigned the 
"morphing" to the mod wheel. It's not a simple sound balance between 2 
layers but a progressive change of the sound parameters from one to the 
other, giving sometimes weird sounds in between with synth patches. I've 
found it very useful for organ patches to travel between a rock organ 
and a more jazzy sound, a bit like you can do with the drawbars.

OK, 10 note polyphony is sometimes not enough, but not so often ... 
Remember of the 5 or 6 note polyphony of the vintage Prophet, Jupiter 
and other analog polys of old the AN1x was intended to emulate. It does 
the job...
Yamaha had issued a great but underrated instrument. Sometimes i regret 
they've not made an "AN2x" with more polyphony, knobs ...but with the 
same sound engine. Surely Yamaha's marketing department has decided that 
the big business was not there, leaving it to others.


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> thanks
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> dan
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Cheers.
J.F.
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