Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

2005/7/25, dodgingrain <Chris@...>:
> I know midi is unidirectional, that is why the desktop would go
> first and filter out the first note leaving the rest of the notes
> for the PEK, just like how it performes with the rack.

That's not going to work very well playing from the keyboard though,
not to mention using the keyboard's knobs (which I presume almost
everybody will want to use as the "primary control surface")!

> As far as the output, I had Dave verify the issue.  The desktop is
> 6db louder than the rack and probably the PEK as well.  This is to
> give the rack enough headroom to play all 4 notes.

That's what I thought would be the case, but my PEK actually seems
(slightly) _louder_ than my desktop using equivalent settings.  I
dunno.

> HOWEVER, I
> consider it a bug and a significant flaw that the desktops output
> isn't lowered by 6 db automatically when in polychain so all 5
> voices are consistant

Note that in the usual PEK-desktop polychain configuration, the
desktop actually _doesn't know_ it's being "chained" -- you'd have to
add a new mode to tell it that.   Not sure where you'd add it though,
the desktop doesn't have any menus or anything!  Maybe Dave could add
a "polychain 0" mode (to accompanfy  the other "polychain N" modes) or
something, meaning "last step in a polychain".

> And having to have a
> mixer to deal with this is silly, I don't use a mixer at all and
> shouldn't have to.

If you're talking about the PEK, you've got to mix the outputs somehow
(it doesn't have a "mix" input like the rack)!

-miles
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