This wish proposes a simple 9th Engine called MIDI. Tt would free up cpu and memory. So instead of always 3 Synth-Engines loaded, a user can load one, or two “MIDI-Engines” to use the chordstuff, arps, sequencers and Pads with other equipment elegant and easy. Instead of Waveforms, shapes, etc, a …

I think it is done yes :laughing: This feature was added in Firmware 1.0.3 . I’m going archive this, if anyone @here is against it, please let me know :hugs:

You can already do this. Click encoder knob by screen and go to “synth” and in there you can make any of the grids into a midi controller or mix and match with the internal synths etc.

Not a bad idea! Your explanation inspired me to try something out and it turns out half of your wish is already the reality: As I understand it from explanations from Polyend staff, the amount of voices for a synth slot defines the amount of CPU taken by it. No matter if you are playing those voic…

thanks and i know that, but the loaded synth engine is still loaded and eats up some cpu and memory, even with zero voice. with a dedicated “midi engine” we could free up both memory and cpu and on top we can utilize a much more elegant way to the most importand midi settings like channels, program…

That is an excellent wish, making Grid, Seq, Arp and Knobs available to play other devices just the way they work in internal engines. Elektron has this feature in many of their machines, instead of selecting an engine, you can switch a track to a MIDI track (or, in the older devices lie OT and DT1…

with midi engines we save up cpu and memory, so we can use hopefully more voices on the heavyer demanding internal synth engines, and as abig bonus, external synths are not so “external” anymore, it is much more like “enhanceing” synth’s sound palette. i really hope this will come to synth, because…

Hey @robi , welcome to Backstage! :partying_face: And what a strong first entry you are making. This is actually a very nice proposal! :muscle: :clap: I’ve taken the liberty to slightly alter your text and title - i hope that’s ok :blush:

[image] robi: with midi engines we save up cpu and memory, so we can use hopefully more voices on the heavyer demanding internal synth engines I doubt that this would have a noticeable influence compared to setting the number of voices to zero. From what was explained by @Mitch in the thread …

(They are not entirely monophonic - you can make one or two or even three of them limited polyphonic capable.)

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MIDI Engine for Synth

Feature Requests Archive

synth, resolved

icaria36 May 20, 2025, 7:38am 19

Done?

Announcing Synth Firmware 1.3 and the DWA Synth Engine

New MIDI Instrument - Engine #10

Save and Load MIDI CC mappings

Shift + Seq to Customize MIDI CC mappings

Map up to 5 CCs to Macros

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