So my frustration with the voice behavior of the Super 6 is really growing. I already posted an issue with the LFO handling the notes differently in 12 voice mode (see here: LFO1 behaviour in 12-voice mode: notes offset when playing chords ). So far no one responded to it.
Now there’s similar differences with the filter when playing chords. Again, here’s a video about what I mean. https://youtu.be/61q6pgRvYX0 Basically the filter somehow treats the notes differently in binaural mode than in 12-voice mode, somehow the filter envelope is not applied in the same way to each note. If I play a new chord just before the sustain pedal is released or before the release time of the filter envelope has ended, the filter retriggers in a weird way, separating the notes from each other.
I suspect it has to do with the voice allocation, since in binaural mode there’s only 6 voices. If I play 4 notes and then another 4 before the previous ones have ended, I am of course needing 8 voices for a very short amount of time. Still I see no reason why this would affect the filter behaviour in this way, or can anyone explain why it does and what I could do to avoid this (beside not using binaural mode obviously)? I tried the same thing on other 6-voice synths and nowhere does this have any effect on the filter envelope, the 2 notes needed for the new chord are simply cut off from the previous one. So I am not neccessarily saying this is a bug, maybe the fault is on my side, maybe I don’t fully understand how the Super 6 works, although I thoroughly read the manual and have a lot of experience in sound design with lots of other synths. This behavior is just new to me and alongside other nagging things (parameter jump behaviour when editing not possible to change, unison mode “hard-wired” legato etc) pushing me away from using it rather than inviting me to play as an instrument.
I think I found the reason why this is happening. It has less to do with too few voices but more with the way voices are being handled in binaural mode. Because somehow in binaural mode I can seemingly play an infinite amount of voices, they’re just not running through the filter anymore (at least that’s what it sounds like to me). If I hold a 6-voice chord in the sustain pedal, I can go on playing notes over it (in contrast to 12-voice mode where any more notes than 12 do not sound at all), they just don’t sound the same as those in the initial chord. I think that’s what happening and what’s causing the problem.
Still, it’s disapointing, because holding a chord in the pedal, then playing a new one while the pedal is still pressed down, releasing it shortly after it (causing a tiny little overlap) is basically the way you would play on a piano, which hasn’t been an issue for me on other synths I played before (even with fewer voices). So I really would love to at least have some insight on why this is happening, if not some way to change this behaviour in binaural mode (which I love, so avoiding it because of this problem would be really sad). Maybe some way of globally setting filter retrigger behaviour (last note, lowest note etc, like in other synths)? That would solve other issues as well, such as the weird legato unison mode. Right now, every voice assign mode has its own filter retrigger behaviour “baked in”.