Xpantastic!

oh no-i hope we don't limit ourselves to simple 4 note chords-harmonic colours like those based on modes of limited 'transposition (a la messiaen)are wonderful backgrounds for spacey ambient stuff.thanks,rob

--- On Mon, 7/16/12, Omar <holografique@...> wrote:

From: Omar <holografique@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [xpantastic] The pure size of the Matrix-12
To: xpantastic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 16, 2012, 8:28 PM
















 



  


    
      
      
      

    
      
        
          
            
              However, I certainly appreciate that some
                  musicians don't use the Xpander for chords, but rather
                  as 6 individually triggered monosynths,-
            
          
        
      
    
    

    Oh no, they probably use it for both and multitimbral chords, just
    like the Matrix-12.

    How many notes do you need to play a chord, even a long envolving
    one and in a musical context ?

    According to music theory, you need exactly 4 voices to play every
    chord,- skip the root.


yea, I was gonna say, I use mine for every type of synth sound. from mono-basses, to percussion, to thick pads, to buzzy resonant stabs, to leads, to modular noises, etc. etc. 


6-voices is plenty for chords, although if you are doing lots of quick chord changes, then yea you'll hear it cut off, but that's nothing a little delay fx with a nice feedback tail on it can't fix up in a jiffy. pretty common when dealing with poly-analogs. 


-o