Inconsistant polyphony in STS xxxx

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 3:11 am

Has any one had problems with polyphony in the STS Samplers? I'm using a STS4000 for drum sounds. If I use longer samples (i.e. from a sample cd) I find that some notes lock into a kind of Mono mode until I stop playing for a bit. I’ll be playing away happily when suddenly the floor tom and Hi-hat start to cut each other off.
At first I thought it might be my sequencer/midi-interface but when I bypassed then by using the Pulsar(1) midi ports the problem remained.

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 8:56 am

2 possibilities that I see: the individual setting for each instrument's polyphony is too low or the over-all polyphony (in the pulsar task bar, you see your device with the polyphony #) is fully used by your sampler. Check for the first option, the control is in the main window...

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 9:54 am

I've tried various levels of polyphony and checked that both the instrument and overall numbers are consistant. When I mentioned the tom and hi-hat the rest of the sounds retained polyphony... sort of like intermitant exlusive groups. There is the odd glitch at the start of playing as well but I didn't want to complicate things

I have a feeling it may be due to the buss speed (I'm using a laptop in a docking station). I know this is just "asking for it" as far as performance but the rest of the system runs fine apart from the odd ASIO overflow message in Logic. I mainly wondering if anyone else has experienced this same issue.