Waldorf Q Rack, User Manual

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Sound Parameters – Triggering of Voices
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Triggering of Voices
As soon as a note is played, the Q triggers one or several voices. How this triggering is done is set by
the following parameters. You can find these parameters in the Sound edit menu.
Sound Edit-Menu
Mode | Unisono
Poly | Dual
Mode Poly / Mono
Controls if the Sound can be played polyphonically or monophonically.
• Poly means that each note triggers its own voice or voices like on a piano.
• Mono means that only the last played note sounds. All other notes are stored in an internal
list but aren’t played. As soon as you release the note that is currently played, the second
last note is played and so on. When you play legato, only the first note that was played
triggers the envelopes. All later notes use these envelopes but sound in the pitch you’ve
played. This mode is for sustained sounds like typical 70’s solo sounds.
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When Mono is selected and you have set up a decaying volume envelope for the selected
Sound, you might not hear anything after playing several notes because of the envelopes
decaying to 0.
Unisono
Off / Dual / 3…6
Controls how many voices are triggered when a note is played.
• Off means that a note triggers one voice. This is the standard mode.
• Dual means that a note triggers two voices. Both voices have high priority so they can cut
off other voices that are played.
• 3…6 means that this number of voices is triggered when a note is played. Only the first
voice has high priority, meaning that it can cut off other played notes. The other voices can
only sound if any voices are free or if there are other unison voices with lower priority that
could be cut off. This ensures that older notes play at least one voice as long as the voice
allocation isn’t forced to steal even this voice for a new note.
Unisono Detune
000…031
Unisono Detune
012
Controls the detuning of the Unison voices. Each voice is detuned differently, with Unisono Detune ,
you control the overall amount.
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Unisono Detune suits perfect for thickening the tone. Also Step Sequences and Arpeggios
profit from the detune function.