I’m having difficulty following how to get chords playing on modularSynth. I’m not a synthesizer expert, so I’m missing some assumed knowledge here. I’m trying to setup programmatic playing of chords. My initial attempt was to use NoteOn multiple times, but when the new note was played, the old one turned off.
Reading the quick guide and hunting around, it seemed that this may be because the default modularSynth preset did not allow for polyphony. So I attempted to create a preset that allowed for polyphony, but ran into an issue where it demanded I set up patches.
The quick guide seems to indicate that patches are an advanced feature, so this is where I stopped to ask for some guidance. It seems like I could make chords by using patches themselves and targeting the two modular synth oscillators, then utilizing multiple modular synths to increase the number of notes in the chord to 2, 4, 6, etc. but it seems unlikely that is the right way to do it as modular synths are “expensive”. So how would I do programmatic generation of chords as intended? Especially curious on the process for running multiple tracks with different voices (violin, piano, etc.) Any resources I can jump on? Thanks all!