User Guide

yellow tools INDEPENDENCE 1.0

Manual

Polyphony Settings

The performance of your instruments can be optimized by setting the maximum allowed voices

here. There is always an internal limit - due to the power of your computer - that you can never

cross. Nevertheless Independence has NO internal limitation (no limit) of played keys per Layer or

played keys in general, but each value underneath this ”physical” limit can be speciﬁed as a new

limit for the Layers or the key. Should you ever cross this ”soft” limit when playing the instrument,

then Independence will terminate the oldest note with the speciﬁed release time. You’ll be able to

hear more notes than you speciﬁed in the limit, but only until the old note ﬁnishes its release and is

switched off.

To adjust Independence best possible to the power of your computer you can here set the maximum

number of keys per layer incl. the layer release time that is used to fade out old notes that are

switched off by the keys per layer limit.

Independence does not only offer a ”horizontal” limit, but also a ”vertical” polyphony limit per key,

meaning that you can save even more CPU power. This feature also helps you emulate the

behavior of a live played instrument since it removes notes that would sum up in an unrealistic

manner. As an example, when playing a Sourdo you won’t be able to hear the ﬁrst beat anymore

after playing the fourth one. Independence enables you to adjust exactly this behavior via the limit

per key feature - also including the adjustment of the key release time.

Independence has NO internal limitation of played keys per Layer or played keys in general.

Below the key release parameter is the played keys display. It shows the overview about your

currently played keys on your keyboard or the incoming MIDI notes from your sequencer software.

Some more details about the key polyphony: We have integrated this new way of computation

for a substantial improvement for the user: Independent from how you maybe want to adjust your

polyphony settings to save CPU power, for example, you never have to worry about if your Layers

are mono, stereo or surround - or even which surround format, but you just have to enter a value to

assign the maximum allowed number of simultaneously played keys.

Possible Confusion: If you load a stereo Layer patch and press and hold 5 keys simultaneously

afterwards, the „played keys“ display will show only the value „5“ - your currently played keys. In

fact at this moment ten voices get played internally (ﬁve times two channels!). If we talk about a 5.1

surround Layer patch this internal number of played voices even triples!

This way it may happen that your computer gets enormously stressed by a big session, although just

500 incoming notes from your host get displayed, for example. In fact this means 1,500 channels if

this is an internal surround 5.1 format. If there are furthermore some Zones in the Mapping Editor

which overlap - with an x-fade between two Zones, for example - the effective number of internal