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This can also come in handy in Sequencer Mode, if you are running out
of polyphony during a song. Sometimes you can disable an oscillator
somewhere that really doesn’t affect the sound much, but increases the
number of available voices. Let’s say you've got a 2 osc guitar part
quietly chording in the background, playing 6 note chords (12 voices in
use). If you’ve run out of voices and need more, you may find you can
turn of one oscillator, thus freeing up 6 more voices for use by other
tracks. If the guitar sounds thinner, sometimes you can compensate
with other tricks, such as using more Chorus on an IFX or something.
☞ Parameter Guide, Page 50.
13. On (3.2-1) Ed-Param2: KARMA, there is the “OSC On/Off
Ctrl.”. What is the point of this function?
This is a rather esoteric parameter. What it means is “whether the
timbre is On or Off when KARMA is On or Off.”
Normal = the timbre is on all the time.
Off by KARMA-Off = the timbre is Off when KARMA is Off. In other
words, the only time it is on is when KARMA is On. What would you use
this for? Let’s say you had a GE playing some kind of fast arpeggiated
line on a slow attack pad sound, that was just kind of providing some
background movement. You could add another timbre, like a bell sound,
to be controlled by the same GE (same MIDI Channel), but then use this
option so that when KARMA was On you got the bell in addition to the
pad arpeggios, but when KARMA is Off, you only get the pad.
Off by KARMA On = the timbre is Off when KARMA is On. The opposite
of above. What would you use this for? Let’s say you were designing a
combi to be used both with KARMA Off and On (like the programmers
were required to do - our mission was to hopefully have combis that
sounded decent and useable when KARMA was off, also.) Sometimes,
with KARMA On, you get all this activity that sounds very nice. But you
turn it Off, and then the sound is wimpy and weak. So you can add a
few more layers of timbres on the global channel to fatten it up. But
then you turn KARMA On, and suddenly it’s too thick. This setting
solves this problem - you can add extra timbres on the global channel for
when KARMA is off, and have them go away when you turn KARMA On.
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