Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

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chapelier fou
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Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by chapelier fou » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:26 pm

That's it.
When creating large instruments with lots of simplers for instance, it's impossible to limit the effective polyphony. This annoys me.
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Re: Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by downfader » Sat Feb 13, 2016 4:33 pm

Good idea

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Re: Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by miekwave » Sun Feb 14, 2016 11:18 pm

Simpler/Sampler has a polyphony limiter, analog has a poly limiter, kontact has a poly limiter, ewql play has poly limiter, almost all 'analog' vst's has a poly limiter especially for mono patches (1 voice or 2-4 unison voices), I am wonder which MIDI instrument vst or hardware is giving you poly limit issue?

The only Ableton can natively address this for 3rd party Software (VST) or Hardware (Module/Keyboard) is to create a new poly limit MIDI Effects rack which limits the number of simutanious midi not on messages and has note on/off gate definitions to define voice

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Re: Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by downfader » Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:54 pm

It would be quite good, Miekwave to have a universal setting in the rack to override though

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Re: Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by chapelier fou » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:20 am

miekwave wrote:
The only Ableton can natively address this for 3rd party Software (VST) or Hardware (Module/Keyboard) is to create a new poly limit MIDI Effects rack which limits the number of simutanious midi not on messages and has note on/off gate definitions to define voice
Yeah, well i have to use m4l for this. I wish it could be handled by live.
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Re: Add a polyphony limit to instrument rack

Post by Kristijonas » Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:42 pm

What m4l plugin did you use for this? Please, share your experience.
chapelier fou wrote: Yeah, well i have to use m4l for this. I wish it could be handled by live.

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