User guide

924 Chapter 38 Working in the Environment
Voice Limiter Object
A voice limiter object restricts the number of MIDI notes (1 to 32) that can be held
simultaneously.
It does this by note stealing—newly arriving notes will cause (some of the) currently
held notes to be turned off, once the voice limit is reached.
To create a new voice limiter:
m Choose New > Voice Limiter (or use the New Voice Limiter key command).
Normally, you will assign a voice limiter to an Arrange track, and cable its output to the
instrument object that you want to voice limit. Alternately, you could cable it between
the instrument object that you want to voice limit and an instrument object used to
represent a MIDI Out port.
Voice Limiter Parameters
The voice limiter’s parameter box offers the following:
Voices
Defines the maximum number of voices that can be played simultaneously.
Priority
This is where you define which notes are stolen (are turned off) when the number of
held notes exceeds the limit (determined by the Voices parameter).
 Top: The lowest (pitched) notes are turned off first.
 Bottom: The highest (pitched) notes are turned off first.
 Last: The earliest notes (those played first) are turned off first.