Moog Music Little Phatty Stage II - Manual (Page 31)

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LP Stage II User’s Manual - The User Interface
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LP Stage II User’s Manual - The User Interface
MIDI SETUP (con’t)
The seventh page of the MIDI Setup menu allows you to set up mul-
tiple Moog synths as a polyphonic synth stack. The settings are ‘POLY:
OFF’ or ‘POLY: (#) of (##)’. The first number represents which note
this particular LP is assigned to play, the second number sets the total
number of available voices. For example, if you had an LP and a Voyager
RME, you would set the LP to ‘POLY: 1 of 2’; on the Voyager RME you
would go to ‘MIDI Key Order’ on the Master menu and set the RME to
be note 2 of 2 (note that your Voyager must also have the latest firm-
ware installed; the current Voyager OS is version 3.3). Connect the MIDI
OUT from the LP to the MIDI IN on the Voyager. You should now be
able to play duophonically, with the LP sounding the first note played
on the keyboard and the Voyager RME sounding the second note. If all
available voices are in use, additional notes will not sound until enough
keys are released to free a voice. MIDI Continuous Control numbers
(MIDI CC’s) are consistent between the Voyager and Little Phatty, so any
parameter changes such as pitch bend and mod wheel, filter cutoff and
so on, should affect all voices simultaneously.
If you have two Little Phatty synths, you would connect MIDI OUT from
the first one to MIDI IN on the second, then you would turn on MIDI
MERGE on the second LP and connect its MIDI OUT to the MIDI IN on
the first LP. Turn off LOCAL CONTROL on the first LP so that it is con-
trolled only by the MIDI data that is shared between the two synths.
If you have more than two Moog synths, connect them so that MIDI
passes through each synth and the last is connected to the first; but
make sure that the first synth does NOT pass MIDI through to the next,
or you will create a MIDI feedback loop. The “first synth” in this descrip-
tion should always be the one on which you are playing the keys. If the
first synth is an LP, make sure MIDI MERGE is turned OFF on this synth.
If the first synth is a Voyager, make sure that you are connecting MIDI
OUT from it to the MIDI IN on the second synth; do not use the MIDI
THRU jack on the first synth, only on subsequent synths (voice 2 or
higher).
NOTE: When the Arpeggiator is activated, it overrides
any POLY mode settings.