I was wondering if someone could help me out with a couple of monomachine questions
when poly mode activated, can I lets say just allocate 3 or 4 tracks to it and use the other tracks as simple mono tracks?
And if that doesn`t work, can I somehow trig the poly mode just for some notes to get my polyphony? Or once its set to poly, all my tracks will be just one for this pattern?
Is it correct that effects including the delay will be unique to each track? Which means I can set a different delay time for each track?
I read there is an ensemble mode which basically lets you play chords without using extra voices? Is it similar to the model cycles and syntakt chord machine? Or does it work completely different?
I still don`t get “fx machines”. Are those effects just meant for the input signal? Or can I also use the effects for each track?
No. Poly mode trasform mm in a one track, six voice instrument
Yes
I don’t know exactly how works m:c chord machine. In MM ensemble modes you can set the exact pitch for every 4 voices, you have not chord names
FXs are “machines” or “synthesizer track”. Basically you have fx parameters in place of synth parameters and you have to set the input that could be external OR internal
to clarify on 3, the ensemble machines are pretty different from the m:c chord machines. You get more immediate control over the chord’s structure but its less immediate if you want to just bang out quick chord progressions. check my single cycle chord wave forms if you want something similar to the m:c chord machines. It’s a little hacky but the functionality is very similar once you wrap your head around the tuning quirks.
Some effects like delay (time, feedback, base and width delay filters), srr, eq are per track: there is a whole page dedicated to these and they can be the destination of LFOs.
You have 3 stereo busses that let you route tracks output to one or several stereo outs. They can be used to route a number of tracks as input for an FX track.
Amp, filters, LFOs and dedicated FX above are also available for your FX track, the parameters of which you can of course pluck as you wish.
FX are not hifi nor modern grade, but very interesting to play with nonetheless.
Thanks a lot everyone.
That’s pretty awesome overall. The way how the ensemble machines work is totally fine.
I kind of know for most chords which pitch would be needed. It might make it even easier dialing in chord progressions as it normally just needs 1 or two note changes moving from one to another chord. Especially when considering inversions.
For me it’s kind of miss opportunity to not be able play a chord on the keyboard and let the machine write that chord in the current step.
And this both for monomachine and M:C.
If that would be the case, would use those machine so much more.
Paraphony is fine for me on lots of situations.
Would have been nice, along with countless other suggestions that were put forward back in the day (dynamic polyphony/fx, track lengths, off grid sequence recording etc) but ultimately it is what it is - the story goes it’s running at maximum capacity.
I really like how Monomachine is handling effects. I hope that Tonverk or whatever is next will revisit these concepts. Having delay and EQ that can be individually applied to every track is something I’d often like to have on the newer machines. And then adding several outputs that can be flexibly routed plus an internal routing system that can speak to tracks dedicated to (plockable) effects sounds really great.
