User Manual

Using Poly Chain

Poly Chain links two Prophet '08s or a Prophet '08 and one or two Tetras to

increase polyphony by intelligently processing the keys hit and passing MIDI

data through to the Poly Chain MIDI out jack.

You should have the same programs loaded into all the poly chained

instruments. The easiest way to do that is to use the Dump command in the

Global menu to dump the programs via MIDI from one synth to the other.

Note: Tetra ships with the Prophet factory programs already loaded into

banks one and two. The Prophet does not have Tetra’s sub-octave

generators or feedback, so for poly chaining it’s best to either use Prophet

programs or Tetra programs that don’t use those features.

The diagram below shows the possible configurations and the Poly Chain

settings for each of the instruments. Just use a standard MIDI cable to connect

one instrument to another.

You can now virtually ignore the slave unit, since the controls on the master will

control the poly chained unit(s) as if they were a single synth. This includes

saving a Program; if you save an edited program on the master, it will also save

the program on the slave.

Note: If using an external MIDI clock, set the master MIDI clock to

MIDI In/Out, and the Slave MIDI clock to MIDI In.