Alyseum MS-812 - Manual (Page 13)

MS-812 – User’s manual © - Revision 1.9
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The editing allows adjusting the gain and offsetting velocity of the drum section.
In case you don’t want to allocate too many CV jacks to control velocity, there is a convenient
global velocity signal available. This signal is updated with the velocity of each incoming note in the
drum section so that sounds that usually do not play simultaneously can benefit of individual
velocity control through a single jack.
Direct Jack Control section
This section gives direct access to the jacks, by bypassing the various musically related processes.
This capability is mostly useful for controlling the jacks by customizable software applications that
need direct access to the logic statuses and voltage converters.
5.3.4 The voice processors
The voice processors relate to the Mono and Poly sections.
All together, the 8 performance inputs will feed up to 15 of the available voice processors (7x1 +
1x8). The polyphonic input can feed up to 8 processors depending on its polyphony limit setting;
each mono input always feeds a single voice processor.
Each voice processor extracts and converts the performance messages into various data.
● Note values (tone/pitch) can be transposed and processed with portamento
● Velocity (Impulse) can be adjusted in gain and offset
● Continuous data (Modifiers) can be adjusted in gain and offset, as well as compared again
threshold values.
It is the data generated by the voice processors that can be hooked up to the jacks. Any data type
from any voice can be freely assigned to any jack (analog to analog and digital to digital).
The list of offered data is very long compared to the number of jacks; this is what gives the
richness and flexibility of the MS-812. It is also allowed to assign a given signal more than once to
multiple jacks.
5.3.5 Settings of the voice processors
The way the data is handled in the voice processors is depending on settings. In addition to
editing, most of the settings can be modified in real time for interesting musical results. (e.g. the
portamento time).
Settings and real-time control are independent for each of the 8 inputs.
All voices handled by the polyphonic input will share the same set of settings, while voices from
each monophonic input act independently.
All 8 inputs present the same panel of settings and realize the same treatment with only three
exceptions, all relating to the polyphonic input:
● The number of voices actually handled from the total polyphony received can be set (1 to 8)
● There is a global poly gate signal combining all gates from the poly section voices
● There is a global trigger signal combining all triggers from the poly section voices
5.3.6 Notes about the various settings
Voice management
All inputs offer voice management based on a history buffer.
For the mono inputs, this allows playing real mono synth techniques such as multi finger trills.
In the poly section it handles intelligently the voicing allocation when there are more notes played
than currently assigned outputs.