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Originally posted by brickboo:
Boy! I just thought I was in the dark but now I know I'm in the dark about the polyphony.

What's wrong with my thinking here. Someone please explain.

Say you were in a 20 piece band and everyone hit 5 notes at the same exact time. 5X20=100 notes right. I mean somewhere along the line many people will be hitting the same notes right? Just how may instrumens do you have to have play the same notes to make you happy? It seems that some where it would get real cluttered. No?


You are forgetting that most syth tones are made up of more than one voice-up to 4. So each three note chord could be 12 voices. Also, on an arranger there could be up to 8 part backing in the style-that hogs voices, so doing the math it could possibly be 8 X 4 = 32 voices just for the style by itself. Now that is not in use the whole time but it is the most poly possible. Also, I use both left and right voices when I play so with my left hand I am usually fingering chords of 3 or 4 notes 32 + 12 (or 16)= 46 (50) which leaves very little poly-18 voice (14 voice) to work with the right hand part.