Hello,

I run a small XV5080 site and among some questions there are a few that are very important regarding polyphony.

I's said that the XV5080 (3080 and 88) are 128 voice polyphony.. What do they really mean with that. If you dig a bit, you'll come to another question because 1 tone in the XV architecture can have a left and a right tone. So you can ask another question: will those 2 L and R tones use only one voice or 2? Maybe the XV's are really 64 voice polyphonic....

- Another question i'd like to ask is about the vintage synth card (SRJV80-04). In the JD990 you could load one extra bank of patches (so you had a JV and a JD patch). Will this also be the case with the XV5080/3080/88? (or maybe with the 5080 only?

Greets

CD

Cosmic Dreamer
As i wrote some weeks ago in this forum XVs have 128 voice oscilators driven by mono and stereo samples. In case of stereo samples XV uses two oscilators and the actual polyphony is 64. It would be nice if XV had 128 x 2 = 256 voices but as you understand their cost would be much above 3k. Roland uses 24 bit D/A conversion so the DSP/CPU load is already too high.
When you use old JV expansion cards (MONO)then you actually have 128 voice polyphony.
BTW XVs is the only synth that uses 128 true voice engine plus stereo samples and 24 bit circuitry.

THanks inray, Guess we'll go on in the other newsgroup (to make things easy)...


CD