Polyphony inside Songs...

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Polyphony inside Songs...

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Imagine you have 10 songs recorded in the same batch. Does the polyphony of, say, song-000 interferes with the polyphony in song-001?

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Hi PP -

Not sure what you mean by 'batch' - do you mean loaded onto the OASYS at the same time?

In any case - the answer is that there is no interference in polyphony between songs since only one song is running at a time. Hence, the synthesizer engines will deliver whatever your MIDI tracks from an individual song demand, up to their limit and OASYS's sophisticated voice allocation capabilities.

There was an interesting tread here some months ago - you'll have to search for it or perhaps someone else can point to it - where, because the OASYS is capable of Audio recording, you can gain great complexity in song recording if you share audio tracks across various songs. For example - suppose song one uses 8 MIDI tracks. The idea (if I understand correctly) if to record them to audio tracks - say you 'mix' you eight MIDI tracks to 4 audio tracks. Now, go to Song 2, and either import the identical settings from song one (or vary it as desired) and now you have available to you the 4 audio tracks from song one (shared among all songs) and 16 brand new MIDI tracks all over again with the OADYS's full polyphony at your disposal. You could keep going like this over many songs and build up very sophisticated song arrangements.

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Got it. Thanx Kevin! :D

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P.S.: I meant batch to all the songs you can save in a single file.
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