Operation Manual

2.2 Tutorial 2 Playing a Synth with a Keyboard 35
• Select the Polykey module in the MIDI folder of the In/Out section and place it in the
construction area.
• Pull a wire between the first output of the Polykey module, the gate signal, and the input of
the ADSR.
• Pull a wire between the second output of the Polykey module, the pitch signal, and the first
input of the VCO and another one between the same keyboard output and the third input of
the Vlowpass2 filter.
• Select and delete the wire connecting the output of the VCA filter to the input of the Volume
module.
• Select the Polymixer module in the Mixer section and place it in the construction area
between the VCA and the Volume module.
• Pull a wire between the VCA output and the Polymixer input.
• Pull a wire between the output of the Polymixer module and the Volume input.
• Double-click on the Polykey module and set the number of voices to 4 in the Number of
Voices textfield.
Figure 18: Tutorial 2, step 6
Playing
You can now start playing with the synth again, it now has four voices of polyphony.
Note
When you create a polyphonic patch, the Tassman duplicates the modules appearing between the
Polykey and Polymixer as many times as there are voices of polyphony. Although only one
polyphony line will be mapped on the player (since the voices all share the same controls) other
modules have indeed been created. This means that the computing load can quickly become very
heavy when using polyphony. If you find you are loosing real time, try reducing the number of