with always 3 engines loaded, even with 0 voices on two engines, synth can not utilize the full potential for that “single” Engine, because a user COULD load one or two more engines, so Synth HAS to reserve 2/3 of its power for the other two engines.
What should this feature achieve?
it is possible for now to load 3 times Grain, or 3 times PMD, so a “monotimbral setting” should give us more Power to all engines:
at least 3 to 6 Voices (or more Grains) for heavyer demand engines
and possibly even more usefull stuff (second filter??) for lighter engines.
the Pads in “single” or “monotimbral” mode should give us the wrap funktion,
because it is greyed out for now in single mode…
instead of scenes, Synth should act like a “normal” Synthesizer with program changes
(bank = engine, sbank + prog = preset)
Are there any workarounds?
no, but if this “monotimbral mode” is not in polyends interest, because this “3 synths with chord and note modes” thing is more important to the devs, as it is Synth as a Synthesizer, maybe polyend can give us “Polyend Grain”, a fully dedicated granular synth with “polyend synth” as base?
the 3 buttons under the display could now be used to switch pages in engine, envelopes, filter, lfo, etc (even faster as stepping though pages).
If i think about it, Grain deserves its own Instrument, because it is really awesome and the alternatives are:
a old RaspberryPi with fader
a unfinished, but sleek looking unit from denmark
and a tiny 2 knob plastic thingy made in china that costs almost the same as Synth
And if polyend do dedicated Instruments of their unique and really good sounding engines, maybe do the same with Wave (wtfm included please), PMD and VA (all the va engines), i would easily buy all three units and be happy to spend that money.
Thank you for this wish. Just to be clear: Are you asking for a specific “Grain Mode” that turns the Synth into a dedicated grain synth or should it be possible to choose any of the engines in “single engine mode”?
Btw, your listing of hardware granular synths lacks the GR-1 and GR-Mega from Tasty Chips. I have a GR-1 and it’s so much fun.
we shoud choose any synth engine (but a dedicated polyend grain would make me happy too )
3 engines at the same time is cool, but lets face it, more often we need a single engine, and some need more power. this would also solve the whole “mixing, gainstaging and clipping” problems. (1 engine is way simpler to tame and control then 3)
yeah, the gr1 is the old raspberrypi with faders
btw, gr1 mega is not here yet, you can pay 1/3 for it but cant get it now
and yes gr1 is fun, but the grain engine in synth is so good, even with way less powerfull hardware, imaging how fun a dedicated “polyend grain synth” would be (lets call it a second wish these dedicated synths like polyend grain, polyend wtfm, polyend waves, and so on)
dont get me wrong here, i am build instruments my self (guitar tube amps) and normally I don’t criticize instruments and take them for what they are, but when an instrument like polyend synth is so close to perfection, the many little things annoy me hard because this synth is so close to my heart. otherwise I wouldn’t care.
it is awesome how good the engines in synth are, this is not a “put many stuff in cause more is more” thing, the engines are actually really good. i mean you can spend double or more and get a synth thats sound way less good.
i really really want to use this synth as a “normal” synth also, and since it is a synth it should do the normal synthstuff first (programm change, instead 8 slots for all that good stuff in here) and all that chord and progression stuff second. (it is a synth with chordstuff, not a chordbot with some synthengines). also a good layering solution would be great because polyend synth has only a single stereo output anyway so lets make the best out of it.
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