However, I certainly appreciate that some
musicians don't use the Xpander for chords, but rather
as 6 individually triggered monosynths,-
Oh no, they probably use it for both and multitimbral chords, just
like the Matrix-12.
How many notes do you need to play a chord, even a long envolving
one and in a musical context ?
According to music theory, you need exactly 4 voices to play every
chord,- skip the root.
yea, I was gonna say, I use mine for every type of synth sound. from mono-basses, to percussion, to thick pads, to buzzy resonant stabs, to leads, to modular noises, etc. etc.
6-voices is plenty for chords, although if you are doing lots of quick chord changes, then yea you'll hear it cut off, but that's nothing a little delay fx with a nice feedback tail on it can't fix up in a jiffy. pretty common when dealing with poly-analogs.
-o
