Polyphony limit

[octodigitus]

Hello, so I'm getting really frustrated with the E2's polyphony limit. I read it can play 24 sounds at once but it seems to start dropping sounds at 8 or so. I was wondering if there are any techniques to avoid hitting this limit so easily. Also, has anyone else noticed that if you're playing with a pattern for a while the limit seems to stick even when you shut off parts, and that switching to another pattern and back seems to refresh it?

[Frenzies]

The 24 voices include filters and insert effects and are even, I think, affected by the waveform you are using.
Where you don't need them turn off the filters, turn off the effects, set your parts to mono, when you come up against voice stealing set the most important parts to high priority.
I always see it as the electribe's way of telling me that I'm getting self indulgent and there's too much going on in my track.

[Zabong69]

The complex waveforms that are part of the E2's inventory but not the E2S, are most certainly 2 voices, not one. Avoid engaging them in chords.

I also suspect that long decays eat into polyphony, even when the notes are barely noticeable. This would mean a sub-optimal implementation of voice allocation. Lowering decay times might help here, I have not tested this. Can someone confirm my suspicion?

Also, I really doubt that *all* filters eat polyphony. Korg should really tell us a bit more here, I hate walking in the dark.

If you have an iPad: fire up Stroke Machine or any other multi-timbral synth engine and let that sound engine do some heavy lifting for the Electribe.

Z

[apapdop]

I've found that sticking to the Electribe filters improves voice count quite significantly.