PolyBrute - Voice Control

They control important behaviors of the PolyBrute:

• Polyphony
• Timbrality (Splits and Layers)
• Modulation Wheel assignment
• Morphée assignment

The PolyBrute has six notes of polyphony, playable from the keyboard in three ways:

• Polyphonic
• Monophonic
• Unison (stacks voices for a thick sound)

Holding the Polyphony button brings up voice allocation options for whatever mode it’s in. Holding it while in Poly mode displays options for polyphonic voice allocation.

Mostly, this is important when you max out the PolyBrute’s voices and it has to decide whether to “steal” voices in use to give you new notes, and if so, which ones to steal.

Holding it while in Unison or Mono mode brings up allocation options shared by those two modes.

In Unison and Mono modes, playing legato (connecting your notes together by striking a new key before you’ve fully released the last one) can affect the PolyBrute’s envelopes in two ways:

• Legato On: Legato notes do not retrigger the envelopes, i.e. you have to fully release all keys before playing a new one will retrigger.
• Legato Off: All note-ons retrigger the envelopes regardless of how they’re played.

Legato On can add expressiveness to your playing. For example, let’s say a Preset’s notes begin with a pronounced filter attack-decay that makes a “wow” sound.
By varying your playing, you can determine note by note whether this is heard.

Single, Layer, or Split. Most of what the Timbrality button does is covered in our Splits and Layers FAQ.
An additional function is that holding it (which mode it’s in doesn’t matter) brings up polyphonic voice allocation options for the lower part.

The Wheel button selects from four quick options for the modulation wheel:

• Matrix: Row J in the modulation Matrix, where it can then be assigned to a huge variety of destinations.
• Cutoff: Master filter cutoff, affecting the Steiner and Ladder filters simultaneously.
• LFO1 Vib: Maps LFO1 directly to vibrato of both VCOs; wheel controls amount. This lets you add quick vibrato without needing to make an assignment in the Matrix.
• LFO1 Amp: Makes the wheel control the amount of any modulation routing that uses LFO1 as a source.

An additional function is that holding it (which mode it’s in doesn’t matter) brings up Vibrato options.

 

The Morphée button provides three quick options for deciding what the PolyBrute’s exclusive Morphée 3D controller does:

• Matrix: Each of the three axes acts as a modulation source in the PolyBrute modulation Matrix.
• Arp/Seq: Adds randomness to arpeggiator and sequencer patterns (see below).
• Morph: Enables Morphing on the X/Y surface. The bottom left corner is equivalent to Morph knob position A. The top right is equivalent to B.