ALESIS ANDROMEDA A6 - Manual (Page 59)

Chapter 2: Playing the A6
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PAGE PARAMETER
OPTIONS
or RANGE DESCRIPTION
KBMODE
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MONOVX
Mono Voice
1 ··· 16
± cents
Only available if MONO mode is selected in the
POLY parameter, MONOVX selects a specific voice
to be played. This effectively turns the A6 into a
2-oscillator, single-voiced instrument.
This feature is useful when the individual VOICE
OUTPUTS on the back panel are used. If you need
to isolate voice 8, for example, set this
parameter to
8 .
ASSIGN This parameter selects which voices of the A6
will be assigned to incoming notes.
LOWEST This will always play the lowest available
voices.
ROTARY This assigns new notes to the 16 voices so that
all voices are used in turn.
About DETUNE
As an example of how voices are staggered-tuned, we’ll use the extreme setting of
100 which gives the greatest width or amount of detune among the voices.
Mode: maximum UNSN-X set to 16 (16 voices are used for one note)
If DETUNE is set to 100 (100 cents, which is equal to a semitone), the following
formula is used to calculate the “spread”:
Spread = DETUNE setting / (# of voices – 1)
= 100/(16-1)
= 100/15
= 6.67
Voice 1 pitch = no change
Voice 2 pitch = + 06.67 cents
Voice 3 pitch = – 13.33 cents
Voice 4 pitch = + 20.00 cents
Voice 5 pitch = – 26.67 cents
Voice 6 pitch = + 33.33 cents
Voice 7 pitch = – 40.00 cents
Voice 8 pitch = + 46.67 cents
Voice 9 pitch = – 53.33 cents
Voice 10 pitch = + 60.00 cents
Voice 11 pitch = – 66.67 cents
Voice 12 pitch = + 73.33 cents
Voice 13 pitch = – 80.00 cents
Voice 14 pitch = + 86.67 cents
Voice 15 pitch = – 93.33 cents
Voice 16 pitch = + 100.00 cents