The Voice / Channel Matrix offers complete customization over the output destination of each voice in a voicing. Each voice can be assigned to output over one or more MIDI channel(s), allowing for advanced orchestration and arranging.
For example: Your DAW might be configured with a multitude of virtual instrument tracks, each with a different orchestral instrument and each set up to receive MIDI over a particular channel. Cymasphere can be configured in the Voice / Channel matrix to output each voice to a separate MIDI channel so that each virtual instruments only plays a single voice of the voicing, instead of every instrument playing every voice.
- By default, Cymasphere sends all voices over MIDI channel 1.
To make a voice/channel assignment, find the column(s) with the voices you want to send, then check the box(es) in the rows for the MIDI channel numbers you would like to output to.
- The checkboxes to the left of each row assign/unassign all voices to that row’s MIDI channel number.
- The output of Cymasphere’s voicing generator assigns voices from low to high (the lowest note of a voicing is V1, 2nd lowest is V2, etc.)
- The bass note generated by the bass note feature has a discrete voice ‘b’, which is always separated from the “main” voicing, so that turning on and off the feature does not shift orchestration of the main voicing.
When Sustain C.T. feature is on, Cymasphere will dynamically reassign voice numbers to allow for any common tones to remain in the same “voice slot”, even if their ordinal position from low to high has changed. This allows Cymasphere to send Note Off messages that address the correct MIDI channels when a common tone is no longer common in a new voicing.
