Expert Sleepers Silent Way v2.4.3 - Manual (Page 104)

Note that these settings only affect the Voice Controller’s internal envelopes. When using
external envelope generators, you have the following options:
• If you just use the Gate output, you will end up with the same result as described for
‘Retrig Off’ above.
• If your envelope generator has a retrigger input as well as a gate input (for example,
the Analogue Systems RS-60), you can connect the plug-in’s Trigger output to the
retrigger input to achieve the ‘Retrig On’ behaviour.
• Alternatively, you can use the output matrix to mix in a negative amount of the Trig-
ger signal into the Gate output. The has the effect of momentarily closing the gate as
seen by the synth, which should be enough to retrigger its envelopes.
Polyphonic Mode
The Voice Controller supports a polyphonic mode of operation
i.e. one where multiple notes sound at once.
This is achieved using multiple instances of the plug-in - one
per voice, plus one additional instance to act as the ‘master’ or
controller.
The master plug-in should have its ‘Poly Mode’ menu set to
‘Master’. The adjacent ‘Ply/Vox’ (short for ‘Polyphony/Voice’)
knob controls the maximum polyphony i.e. the number of simultaneous voices that will
sound. This should be set to the number of additional Voice Controller plug-ins that you’re
going to set up.
The voice plug-ins should have their Poly Mode menu set to ‘Voice’. Each plug-in should
have its Ply/Vox knob set to a different value - this is telling the plug-in which of the
polyphonic voices it represents. So for example if in the master plug-in you set the po-
lyphony to 4, you need 4 more voice plug-ins, with their voice set to 1, 2, 3 & 4 respec-
tively.
Route the voice plug-in outputs to your synth hardware as normal, bearing in mind that
each voice will need separate outputs. Unless you have a monster audio interface, it’s un-
likely that you’ll need all 6 outputs from each plug-in.
The input from your synth that would normally go into each Voice Controller should be
connected only to the input of the master plug-in. The master distributes this signal to the
voice plug-ins as necessary.
The final step is to connect the master plug-in to the voice plug-ins. Exactly how you
achieve this depends on your host application, but in general the idea is to route the mas-
ter’s output 1 to the input of all the voice plug-ins in the most direct way possible. Sugges-
tions for various popular hosts are as follows.