Prophet 10 poly glide

[MaoMao]

Hello everyone, I have a Prophet 10 dekstop and I honestly can't understand the logic of the polyphonic glide. I have tried various key modes (last note, Low, etc) but if I hold down a low note with my left hand and play a slow scale or jump notes with my right hand I get sometimes glide, sometimes clean note without glide sometimes glide backwards (as if I held a high note first) sometimes long glides, sometimes short glides... in short it all sounds very random to me. I also have a Creamware Pro 12 that has polyphonic glide and that works perfectly all the time and with all the notes. So is it my Prophet 10 defective or does the polyphonic glide kind of do what it wants ? 

[HockeBocke]

I'm not sure but it might has to do with the "round robin" settings (?)
Maybe also with 5 voice mode vs 10 voice mode.
10 voice = more random voices to start gliding from (?)

Just guessing here 

Cheers !

[MaoMao]

I'm not sure but it might has to do with the "round robin" settings (?)
Maybe also with 5 voice mode vs 10 voice mode.
10 voice = more random voices to start gliding from (?)

Just guessing here 

Cheers !

Hi, thanks for your reply. I'm not using RR, I tried it with same result but I'm still using P5 style. Tried 5 voice and 10 voice, same random results.

[gus]

Hi,

Your synth is not defective - no need to worry there! The key modes are for unison operation. Polyphonic glide is tied to the voice architecture of the synth. Voices will re-trigger until you run out of polyphony.

As an example, set a basic patch and turn glide up a bit. When you hold a new 10 note chord, all the voices will glide from their previous pitch. When you play the same chord a second time, there will be no glide as all 10 voices are re-triggering the same pitch.

I haven't used the soft synth mentioned, but I would guess it operates differently given that it isn't bound to the limitations of analog hardware.

You can search this forum for more info, there are some good threads on this. Below are two videos that might be helpful as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zBsA1rXh8&ab_channel=JimAlfredson
https://forum.sequential.com/index.php?topic=6209.0

Have fun with your new synth!