Use the
New Preset... selector in the Solina V menu to call up the Default patch. Slide the
Crescendo control and the Sustain level control all the way to the right. Open the Side Panel,
select Settings Tab, and turn Poly off.
Play a note, hold it for a while, and release it. You'll hear the filter and amplitude envelope
open up slowly, sustain, and then die away, as you might expect.
Now play a note, release it, and immediately play another note. Can you hear how the first
note's envelope chops off abruptly when the second note plays?
Now play a note, hold it, and play a few other notes while holding the first one down. Can
you hear how each of the new notes starts instantly with no articulation, "underneath" the
original note?
That's paraphonic behavior. There's only one envelope, so there's only one articulation; rapid
playing or chords can sound artificial.
Now turn Poly to on, and do the same things. You'll hear that now every note you play has
the fully articulated envelope – Solina V is now a polyphonic synthesizer of a sort no one
dreamed of in the early 1970s! Pretty cool, right?
From now on in this manual, we'll call these settings "Poly-On" and "Poly-Off".
Oh, and if you're wondering why these settings don't work on the Bass instrument... it's
because the Bass is always monophonic. The more you know...
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MIDI Channels:
Selects the MIDI channel(s) on which Solina V will receive MIDI
input. You can set the Upper and Bass instruments to independent channels, or
set one or both to “All”.
•
Upper/Bass Split:
◦
Split Mode:
The
Layer setting spreads the Upper instrument across
the full keyboard range, regardless of the Bass instrument or Split
Point settings. The
Split setting keeps the two instruments separated
at the Split Point.
◦
Split Point:
Determines the boundary between the Upper and Bass
instruments when the Split mode is set to
Split. When set to Layer, it
sets the upper key limit for the bass instrument.
•
Octave Shift:
Transposes the selected instrument in octave increments, up or
down by up to 2 octaves.
3.4.1.1. How Solina V responds to MIDI Channels
In order to give maximum flexibility, Solina V's MIDI Channel and Split settings can result in
a variety of responses. Let's break them down.
• If both instruments (Upper
and Bass) are set to All, or to the same channel, then
the Split Mode and Split Point settings take effect.
• If the instruments are set to two
different MIDI Channels, data on those channels
will play each instrument throughout the entire note range and the Split Mode
and Split point settings are ignored.
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