The VCV host documentation says: " Host supports polyphonic cables patched into its CV and gate inputs, as well as key pressure (aftertouch) and velocity parameters."
What is it that indicates to the Host that a gate, a pitch cv and a velocity cv belong to the same note? Is it just the fact that they arrive simultaneously?
How would one generate polyphonic notes? Use one polyphonic cable of gates to the gate input, another one with cv pitches to the pitch input and one with velocities to the velocity input? If so, is it that a given triple of gate, pitch and velocity get bundled into a given midi note because they arrive exactly simultaneously?
no, not because the arrive at the same time. Because they are on the same channel. Each cable can carry 16 channels. so cv[0], gate[0], vel[0] are all for the same voice, voice 0 from 0…15.
Why don’t you play around with the default patch (which is polyphonic), and see how it works?
Squinky is right, for Rack in general and for VCV Host specifically. Where you have a source of notes, for example MIDI-CV, it produces the pitch, gate, etc. for a particular note on the same channel on each of the cables. Take this simple patch:
Press and hold a key, and MIDI-CV sends the pitch on the first channel of the red cable, and the corresponding gate on the first channel of the orange cable. Now press and hold a second key to make a two-note chord. The pitch of your second note is sent on the second channel of the red cable, and the gate is sent on the second channel of the orange cable. VCV Host (or any other module or set of modules) associates the pitches and gates by channel number.
Thanks guys. When you say “channel” it’s not a midi channel, correct? It’s an index in the array of values sent on the poly cable?
So to split gate, pitch and velocity from the MIDI>CV module to use with mono modules you’d need a poly splitter for each of gate, pitch and velocity?
And to send poly notes to VCV Host, each note having its own gate, pitch and velocity you’d need a poly merge for each of them?
