Making your monophonic module polyphonic

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Ok this is cool! I can use sum instead of split. And continue with a summed mono signal. I just tried it and it works fine! :+1:t4: Thanks guys

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I’ve added a Polyphony section to https://vcvrack.com/manual/VoltageStandards.html#polyphony describing the exact behavior of polyphonic modules.

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Jay puts foot in mouth: I really don’t see the big deal with a polyphonic modular synth
Jay takes foot out of mouth: Holy crap! How did I ever get by without VCV polyphony.

Thanks Andrew. To celebrate, I made a polyphonic Hammond B3 emulation in your honor!

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Hi - just in case you didn’t know about Patchstorage…you may want to upload your patches there as well, for better exposure:

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Thanks mixer!

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I wonder if you could have different shapes for a polyphonic I/O plug widget? For example you could use something that looks like an XLR or DIN plug, rather than something that looks like a jack. I realise that module makers use their own graphics, but you could suggest a standard that polyphonic I/Os give you a clue that they’re polyphonic…?

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Experimenting with that at the moment, slightly different socket designs for mono in / out & poly in / out, trivial to implement.

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Another modular piece of software users different cables and I honestly think it looks terrible and too busy.

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Clockwise starting from top left, mono out, mono in, poly in, poly out. Comments?

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Rainbow Prism uses an extra partial ring around a jack to show it is polyphonic.

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And I love how an opening on top means IN and an opening on the bottom means OUT, great design.

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Just remembered for the first time.

Also GCC can vectorize loops quite often by

#pragma GCC ivdep
for(int i = 0; i < x; i++) {
// code here vectorized SIMD if z[i] not depends on z[i-1]
//otherwise old value is used as loop is indicated for parallelization 
}
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