The manual says:
The poly option is polyphonic, mono is monophonic with retrigger, legato is monophonic without
retrigger. In duo mode, oscillator 1 only responds to the lowest played note while oscillator 2
only responds to the highest played note.
But I don’t understand how mono mode differs from legato mode? What trigger are you talking about? Please give an example of this work. Thank you
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- KVRAF
- 1715 posts since 27 Apr, 2012
Make a pluck sound, hold one key and then play another while still holding the first. In mono mode the envelope will retrigger (run again resulting in another pluck) and in legato mode it won’t.
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- KVRAF
- 12444 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
To put it in more musical terms...atmelcool wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:27 am The manual says:
The poly option is polyphonic, mono is monophonic with retrigger, legato is monophonic without
retrigger. In duo mode, oscillator 1 only responds to the lowest played note while oscillator 2
only responds to the highest played note.
But I don’t understand how mono mode differs from legato mode? What trigger are you talking about? Please give an example of this work. Thank you
Think of mono mode similar to someone hitting a note on a piano, then letting go, then hitting another note. There's a very defined attack to each note, with a decay, etc. That defined attack and decay on each note is the synthesizer equivalent of the envelope retriggering.
Think of legato mode as a saxophone playing sexy, smooth single lines. There might be a blow/blast of air at the start of a phrase, but after that, the saxophonist is sustaining notes and playing smoothly until the end of the phrase. Each note does NOT have the same defined attack that the first note does. Or like how playing one note at a time [releasing the key before the next one] on a piano would. Instead, the first note in each legato (smooth) phrase gets the envelope, and the others just get the sustain until you release the key and start over from scratch (kind of like a saxophonist ending one phrase and starting a new one - or pausing to take a breath and starting a new phrase).
Hope that helps.