Published on Feb 16, 2016 Earmonkey Music
Anyone else confirm this? What happens when you play single notes with long release times? Do the first four get cutoff when you play the fifth through eighth? Update: according to Earmonkey the same happens with single notes if you release a key. It only goes onto the next unit when more than four keys are held down, otherwise it just round-robins on the one unit.
"First of all, let it be known that I really do love the Boutiques. I love my JP-08s. However, there is an issue with voice stealing in chain mode....I made this video a while back (cell phone alert) that demonstrates the voice stealing in the Boutique synths when there are two chained together. The issue is that the way Roland have allocated voices is that Unit #1 will play the first four notes, then any fifth note played SIMULTANEOUSLY, will spill over to the second unit. If you're doing big 6, 7, 8 note pads, this is fine. But if you are playing 4-note chords, and then lift off, and play another, the second unit is never triggered at all. So you get only four voices, not eight. The video demo is easier to see. At times I'm playing more than four notes, and all notes sound just fine. But when I do the four-note chords, you get get voice stealing. If Roland would address this and have the note allocation work in a round robin fashion, then you would not have this issue. Every other note could be sent to each alternating unit and you'd only get voice stealing when you reached the 8-voice limit. Anyway, here's the vid"
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