Dear Pulse user,
the latest Pulse software 2.00 now offers special functions to the Pulse
and Pulse+ that make it possible to combine two or more Pulses and playing
them polyphonic. The Basic steps for achieving this are:
- be sure all Pulses have a software release 2.00 or higher,
- connect all Pulse's audio outs to a mixer or a summing amp,
- chain them via MIDI thru/in just like normal synthesizers,
- set them to the same MIDI channel,
- Assign each Pulse a unique identification like this:
Press <Shift-Mode>,
push repeatedly <Up> or <down> until the Display shows alernating:
[ 1 ]-[ oF]-[ 1]
This now means now "I am Pulse #1 of a pile of #1 Pulses" and is the
same as a monophonic one. With both leftmost Potis, alter these
values of all your Pulses so that, in case you have three Pulses,
show this:
Pulse #1: [ 1 ]-[ oF]-[ 3] (Pulse #1 of three)
Pulse #2: [ 2 ]-[ oF]-[ 3] (Pulse #2 of three)
Pulse #3: [ 3 ]-[ oF]-[ 3] (Pulse #3 of three)
or in case you have five, they should show this:
Pulse #1: [ 1 ]-[ oF]-[ 5] (Pulse #1 of five)
Pulse #2: [ 2 ]-[ oF]-[ 5] (Pulse #2 of five)
Pulse #3: [ 3 ]-[ oF]-[ 5] (Pulse #3 of five)
Pulse #4: [ 4 ]-[ oF]-[ 5] (Pulse #4 of five)
Pulse #5: [ 5 ]-[ oF]-[ 5] (Pulse #5 of five)
That is basically it, now press <Shift-Mode> again on each Pulse
in order to synchronize the voice allocation. For the first try,
select a patch that has no arpeggiator active, same for all
pulses, e.g. factory preset #51, and with MIDI input, you are
now finally ready to play a polyphonic pile of pulses !
You will remark, that as soon as you edit one of your pulses,
the sound will only change for that particular voice, there
are two ways to get around this:
1.) If you use a computer, connect the MIDI out from one of your
Pulses, but *not* the first one marked [ 1 ]-[ oF]-[ X], to a
MIDI input of your computer and merge the controller data to the
MIDI output that goes to the other Pulses. In case of Program
Change, be sure all Pulses contain the same soundset or send
the new sound as SysEx or as Controller dump from this special
Pulse.
2.) If you do not use a computer or you have no more MIDI input,
simply connect MIDI in of the 2nd Pulse to MIDI *out* of the first
one instead of MIDI thru. The received Notes, Pitch-Bend messages
and Controller data are also sent to MIDI out of the 1st Pulse. In
addition, on each Program Change, the 1st Pulse sends the new patch
either as controller data or, if it is a factory preset, as a Program
Change message. This way, all editing, Program selecting is done by
the first Pulse and all others are always playing exactly the same
sound. Be sure to have Arpeggiator Note sending disabled, this will
destroy the voice allocation.
If, for any reasons, some Notes are playing on two Pulses and others
are not playing at all, the voice allocation is confused. Simply
execute the Panic Function <Mode-down> on the 1st Pulse, this will
send some All-Notes-Off messages and all Pulses will reinitialize
their voice allocation.
That is it, if something is missing, confusingly described, or
if you have questions or it simply does not work as explained,
send me a mail to
Stenz@Waldorf-GmbH.de .
Thanks,
Stefan
