POLY

Alone

A poly cable into IN shows its channels, a row each, and passes them on at OUT. Each row is a bar from the middle, 0 V, out to where its channel reaches, held a moment at its peak so a short trigger can be seen. Click a row to leave its channel out of OUT: the row stays where it is, drawn faint on a line, and the channels after it move up one on OUT to close the gap. Click the faint row to put it back.

Several cables stacked on IN give every channel of each its own row, so a lone POLY merges mono cables into one poly cable. Splitting a cable back out happens only in a rig, onto the modules to its right.

1. Rows a channel each; click or drag to leave out
2. IN a poly cable, or several stacked
3. OUT the channels kept

Bonded

Merging

In a rig, a POLY merges the modules of one kind to its left into one poly cable, the leftmost first, on channel 1. By default it takes every module of the kind nearest its left, wherever they stand: a POLY to the right of four SEQs takes all four even with CVs between them. It takes up to sixteen modules, the ones nearest it.

Most modules give one channel each. A SEQ playing chords gives every note of the chord, and a SEQ stepping TRGs gives one channel per trigger, eight to a new TRG. The cable carries sixteen channels at most: four SEQs each playing a five-note chord make twenty, and the last four are left out, which OUT's tooltip says.

The kinds it merges are those that carry a sound or a voltage: SEQs, CVs, CRVs, and ATNs carrying a signal, that is with their IN arrow lit or a cable in IN. QNTs, TRGs, CLKs and ATNs that only set a range are passed over; a QNT's chord is a poly cable already. A module taken by a POLY or a MIX further left is not taken again, and a module no one has taken yet is free. MIXes and other POLYs are a kind too, merged only once nothing else to its left is free. How rigs work shows a POLY and a MIX sharing out one rig.

The label at its top names what it merges. Drag it, or click its arrows where there is more than one choice, to take another kind to its left, or one block of a kind; double-click goes back to the nearest kind.

Splitting

With a cable in IN, a bonded POLY works the other way round, on what stands to its right (How rigs work). Patch a cable into a bonded POLY's IN and it splits that cable onto the CVs and TRGs to its right, up to the next POLY, in order from the left: each CV takes one channel as its voltage, and each TRG one channel per trigger, as gates. Any other module between them is passed over and takes nothing. Channels left over go to nobody, and OUT still passes the whole cable on.

The modules the POLY would have merged are left free for a POLY or a MIX further right. A cable in a CV's or TRG's own jack wins over its channel. A QNT or an ATN to the left of the CVs still sets their scale or range, as it does for their faders.

A CV fader moved by hand stops following its channel and plays where it was put; a double-click hands it back to the POLY.

The chord comes by cable, since a POLY never takes a QNT; the four CVs take its first four notes, C, D, E and F. Bond a SEQ to the right of those CVs and it steps through them: a melody of the chord's notes, which changes whenever the chord does.

Channel strips

ATNs with their IN arrow lit, standing to the right of a POLY, take its channels one each: the first ATN channel 1, the next channel 2, and so on, each scaled by its own gain and offset. This is not the split: it works whether the POLY merges or carries a cable in IN. A MIX to the right of the ATNs sums them, so POLY, four ATNs, MIX is a four-channel mixer with a fader and an offset per channel. A CV between the POLY and the ATNs would be what they scale instead, and an ATN with a cable in its own IN scales that cable and takes no channel.

Into a SEQ

A SEQ to the right of a POLY, with nothing in the SEQ's own POLY IN jack, arpeggiates what the POLY carries. Here the first SEQ steps through four QNT chords; the POLY takes the chord playing, and the second SEQ plays its notes one at a time.

Shortcuts

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