Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Really Inspector, do you seriously expect me to believe that on 5/9/03 12:20
pm, "moosetication" <moosetication@...> said:

> --- Paul Bentley wrote:
>> How important is polyphony with regard to a brain...
> 
> Depends. If you were to layer every voice on every pad, you end up
> using a lot of voices. For example, I have three stereo cymbals, so
> each pad has two voices - six overall. But each of those voices has
> two layers, so I'm actually using twelve "polyphony" voices on those
> cymbals alone - and because of sustain, they could well be sounding
> simultaneously. Now look at all the pads... three "triple zone", five
> stereo, and two mono. That makes a grand total of 42 "polyphony"
> voices. You'd have to move faster than me to get them all to sound
> simultaneously, mind.
> 
> You can hear the effect of this if you play along with any of the
> built-in songs (sad, but I do from time to time), because they all
> use voices too. When doing so, cymbal, crashes often choke early
> because the brain has run out of voices.
> 
> I can't imagine managing on 16...

Ah......yes of course, thanks Stewart. Just like computers, more is better!
(It was only when I was trying to compare brains that I noticed the flagship
Roland TD-10 actually has fewer voices (56) than the lowly TD-6 (64)!)