Polyphony vs. Paraphony

[Full Bucket]

I was thinking about a single env for all voices. I believe it has that too. For the single VCF.

Yes, you are right!

I have a feeling i'm going to get a headache from that....

Indeed... pretty unique concept...

Cheers, Björn

[zerocrossing]

Might be a d*mb question but I'll try anyway.

I'm aware of the technical differences between the two (well, I should). But I would love to hear a musicians perspective of why and for what would they choose one instead of the other.

And, let me put this in another way. If you had two identical subtractive synths. Exactly the same architecture. Except that one of them is a poly and the other is para. When would you choose the para over the poly?

I wouldn’t ever choose a paraphonic over the same synth that was polyphonic. It’s just a shortcut to save money. I have two paraphonic instruments (Pro 2 and a Dominion 1) and they’re very cool in their own right, but that’s only because polyphonic versions of those instruments would be very expensive.

[Full Bucket]

I second that if it comes to hardware. IIRC I never used my Mono/Poly's "Poly" mode, it just sounds too thin.

In case of free VST instruments, well, the situation is a bit different.

Cheers, Björn

[S0lo]

Might be a d*mb question but I'll try anyway.

I'm aware of the technical differences between the two (well, I should). But I would love to hear a musicians perspective of why and for what would they choose one instead of the other.

And, let me put this in another way. If you had two identical subtractive synths. Exactly the same architecture. Except that one of them is a poly and the other is para. When would you choose the para over the poly?

I wouldn’t ever choose a paraphonic over the same synth that was polyphonic. It’s just a shortcut to save money. I have two paraphonic instruments (Pro 2 and a Dominion 1) and they’re very cool in their own right, but that’s only because polyphonic versions of those instruments would be very expensive.

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