Sequential circuits samplers

Ah, indeed. Makes sense now.  Thanks!


--- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, Pat Swayne <me@p...> wrote:
> toorglick wrote:
> 
> >I read about this before I got my p2k and the manual and thought it
> >was a weird choice for stereo output.  I was hoping the manual 
would
> >shed some light on *why* it was done that way but no luck.
> 
> I the people at Wine Country, and they sent this explanation for 
the p2k's 
> strange stereo output:
> 
> Thanks for your email.. what you report is normal for the Prophet 
2000. This
> unit is not a STEREO output.. it is a SPLIT output.. meaning voices 
are
> assigned to the Left and 4 voices are assigned to the right.. a 
cyclical voice
> assignement results in 4 voices sound in the left and 4 voices 
sounding 
> from the
> right. There is logic to this design in that with Dynamic 
Allocation OFF, the
> Prophet 2000 can assign the sound located in memory A to 4 voices 
out of one
> output, while the sounds located in memory B assign 4 voices to the 
other
> output.. This makes no sense if you have a piano disk with sounds 
in memory 
> A and
> memory B all being a piano.. However, if you have a Strings & Brass 
disk..
> you can see that 4 voices of strings out the left and 4 voices of 
Brass out 
> the
> right output could be beneficial in separating these 2 different 
types of
> sounds each with 4 voices of polyphony.