newbies question - polyphony and midi
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Steenamaroo
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Hi there, and welcome to HR!
It usually refers to the number of notes which can simultaneously trigger the same instrument or patch
Older monophonic synths would only play one note regardless of how many keys you physically pressed. A polyphonic synth will respond like a piano would.
With a modern midi keyboard it's unlikely to be truly monophonic on a hardware level, but we'd need a model number to be sure.
If your keyboard is set to a patch which is monophonic, that shouldn't have an effect on midi throughput.
Hope that's helpful.
It usually refers to the number of notes which can simultaneously trigger the same instrument or patch
Older monophonic synths would only play one note regardless of how many keys you physically pressed. A polyphonic synth will respond like a piano would.
With a modern midi keyboard it's unlikely to be truly monophonic on a hardware level, but we'd need a model number to be sure.
If your keyboard is set to a patch which is monophonic, that shouldn't have an effect on midi throughput.
Hope that's helpful.
SeaGtGruff
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No, the polyphony should not have any effect on the number of simultaneous MIDI Note events that can be sent when using the keyboard as a controller. Polyphony is strictly related to how many notes can be sounded at once by the keyboard's tone generators, and keyboards are normally designed so that if you try to play more simultaneous notes than the tone generators can handle-- or transmit too many to the keyboard from an external sequencer-- then the operating system will turn off the "oldest" notes as needed in order to free up some tone generators for the new notes. If you're using the keyboard as a controller, you aren't using its tone generators and therefore the polyphony of the keyboard doesn't enter into the picture at all-- although the polyphony of the other device or software that's receiving the keyboard's MIDI will certainly matter.
