Hi all, me again (I’ve been annoying this forum for the past few days to try and decide whether or not a Digitone is for me!).
Quick question about polyphony - have I got this correct?
8 notes internal (4 x tracks)
8 notes MIDI (4 tracks)
16 notes total?
you can play 8 voices at a time with internal synt engine, they are shared across all 4 tracks… so can be 8 voices/notes on one track or one 4 note chord on two tracks or e.g. 3 2 1 2 notes acrosd all 4 tracks. there are various options on voice allocation… but not 8 notes on one track and 3 notes/voices on another track at the same time for example
the midi tracks are completely seperate and can EACH have 8 note midi information on all of the 4 tracks…
so 32 midi notes at once (midi channel can be set per track, all tracks can also be the same midi channel)
have a search in the manual, it is described very well there…
I did try searching the manual but it didn’t seem very clear to me.
Thanks for your answer though. That’s way more powerful than I thought!
So…
8 internal polyphony
32 MIDI
40 in total?!
hm, i dont know, why you count them together, as they have nothing to do with each other…
in practice you could sequence an 8 voice external synth with one midi track or make full use of an 16 voice external synt with two midi tracks together… also you can send midi cc messages too with the midi tracks…
8 voices and 32 midi notes
Ah it’s just my way of knowing how many notes the sequencer can handle at any one time. That’s all.
There’s lots of creative potential having 8 voices by the way. It’s unlikely you’ll be using all 8 on one step, but some very cool things start happening when the voice limit is exceeded every once in a while during your pattern, because then voices get stolen and certain sounds will be choked in a very rhythmical fashion. For this reason, I would create a pattern, then try unison on one or two tracks to push the voice limit and see if any happy accidents occur from the voices/notes being choked 
Yeah, the voice stealing trick can work wonders. I used it on a track for my last release and you’re totally right. When certain voices choke, it creates a cool effect. And everybody is always worried about voice stealing, hah! Good call out @craig
Nope, not worried about voice stealing at all. I’m trying to work with limitations to trigger creative solutions and workaround. Just good to know what potential I have. Thanks!
It forces “less is more” for those who can’t control themselves 