jorgemncardoso wrote:
However I'm curious, you said that you need more polifony and more synth engines. Can you give some specific examples on where you need both, and in what cases?
Polyphony: Any time you have any sets of layers using Karma, there's usually voice stealing going on. Especially it seems on the orchestral setups, even sometimes without KARMA enabled, there are voices that simply drop out.
More specifically, with my own programming, most of my single-board performance Combi's use between 10-14 layers and I frequently run out of polyphony. I have to sacrifice certain sounds that I want built with a particular synth engine because it takes too much CPU power, or I have to go back to existing sounds and re-program them in a different engine so I can creatively regain some lost polyphony. (For example, using some synth saw sounds. They sound better in the AL-1 synth but take up more CPU power so I have to go back afterwards and re-program them in the HD-1 engine so I can reclaim some of the polyphony)
Talking about examples of engines:
Using the AL-1 engine, I had a sound that needed to be erratic. I programmed it originally on the Kurzweil 2600 and one of the parameters was to assign the pitch of a sound to LFO1, but have the range be in the order of 6 octaves. I can only get 2 octaves at best with some clever workarounds. My only other alternative is to sample the sound dry from the Kurzweil directly and load it that way into the Kronos which I've considered but I would really prefer to program it so you have more control.
These are just examples that have shown up for me in the last few weeks, but I come across stuff like this all the time. Maybe I'm not your stereotypical user, but my specific use case requires more from the Kronos than it can offer in it's current iteration, hence the request for more polyphony and alternate engines.
I would love to have a "low cpu power" version of the AL-1 engine which has only the two basic oscillators (None of the sub-oscillators, noise generator, sync oscillator, etc.) and filter and basic LFO/ADSR/EG control but very high polyphony. A LOT of my sounds don't necessarily take advantage of those extra features within the AL-1 engine, but my impression is that even with the volume on those oscillators at 0, they still need to be assigned because something could trigger them or change the volume on them at any time.
I wish instead of a whole new dedicated engine, for a checkbox that would simply disable the extra aspects of each AL-1 oscillator. Just a simple "On/Off" option, which could free up polyphony.