Polysynth – you guys are amazing!

[rograt]

I was considering buying a synth pedal e.g. Meris, Source Audio etc but I don’t need one that badly, and certainly don’t need it to be that fully featured. This Polysynth has just saved me the effort.

Thank you!

[brock]

That PolySynth is really something, isnt it?  I made the comment elsewhere that this feature set would be very close to what I was looking for in my 1st keyboard synth.

And yet, I can use it with my guitar (and most everything else).  I think the polyphony tracking is pretty amazing, and I’m struck by how closely the envelope follows my input’s natural dynamics.

Adds a whole new dimension to onboard volume control techniques upstream.  I’m impressed by this algorithm.

[PRSGUY513]

I had commented elsewhere where the Polysynth algo turned what I felt was somewhat overpriced into something worth it for this alone. I imagine Eventide will see H90 purchases on the increase. Kudos to Eventide.

[rograt]

I naively immediately set this up for post guitar preamp but when I finally set it up behind the preamp it really sings and somehow retains a lot of guitar tone and dynamics. Not sure I will ever get my head around those 24 controls though. I may just look for ready made patches.

Also I can’t say how much I appreciate not taking up more space, more loops, more power connectors, more MIDI connectors on my board as I would have done if I had bought a synth pedal.

Incredible.

 

[brock]

rograt wrote:

… Not sure I will ever get my head around those 24 controls though. I may just look for ready made patches …

It’s not hard to miss something (all of them don’t fit on one H90 Control screen in my laptop).  But I think it helps to mentally group parameters together.

Voices / oscillators:  Levels, Shifts, Shapes 1-2-3.  Overall control over this multi-voice group:  Spread, Detune, Play Style.

Low pass filter & envelope follower grouped together:  Attack, Cutoff, Resonance, Env Amount, Env Sens.  Separate but related:  Freeze Rel and the Freeze Performance Parameters.

LFO in the assignable wildcard group:  LFO Dest, LFO Amount, LFO Rate & LFO Shape.

Positive / negative modulation throughout  deserves its own dedicated discussion.  Pitch Wheel for global control.

There have been a few more PolySynth patches popping up in the wild already.  Some are a very good additions to the wide-ranging [F]actory offerings.

[PRSGUY513]

This video has some good information on the new Polysynth Algorithm and near the end he uses a pretty cool organ patch from the preset exchange. Worth a look.👀
https://youtu.be/3XM2WSsQ9Qk?si=UMkAaWC5bx96LLiL

[rograt]

Thanks for the synth lesson. I may revisit some of those Native Instruments presets!

Yes that video is quite helpful. I’ve lost count of how many of his videos I’ve watched and I don’t recall a bad one.

[brock]

Nicely done walkthrough:

https://youtu.be/Y24aXNWphO0

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