Entirely different principle.
That's not polyphonic. It'll only track the strongest fundamental in the input.
Discussed here, and in subsequent posts.
nateb speaks the truth. Additionally, while it may have been done already, you don't know what it took to get it done.
Off the top of my head, it could be work by separating out the signals from each string and running them through their own synth blocks. However, according to Axe-Edit, a synth block takes up 14% of an Ultra, so even ignoring the DSP cost of splitting out each string (which would very likely be high), you'd be using 84% of your DSP on one effect block. There wouldn't even be enough DSP left for delay and verb blocks. Or perhaps it took three developers working full-time on it for five years to come up with the algorithm (which is naturally now patented) and FA simply can't justify devoting the resources to it right now.
You're right in that it would be cool, though.
As to your question of whether not there have been any improvements to the synth block, I don't know. Hopefully someone who does will come along and answer you though. I'm a bit curious myself.
One is working with harmonic overtones and dividing them and doesn't really need to know what the pitch is. It has no idea if the pitch is an Ab or a G. A synth does not take a signal an alter it. It generates its own signal and alters it with information given (like pitch and envelope but not necessarily). If it is going to play a note based on pitch, it need to know which pitch exactly to generate.
How?
Where? He said it couldn't be updated through CAT5, but I didn't see anything about MIDI.
Looking forward to your implementation of this "secret." :?
The Octavius does polyphonic pitch shifting, not polyphonic synthesis. They're different beasts.Hmmm, while that may be true I do get a polyphonic output, i.e. if I play 6 strings the Octavius will give me octaves for all these 6 notes/pitches. To me that is polyphonic but maybe I have a definition disorder.
I would appreciate if you could explain to me how in what way I'm wrong assuming this is polyphonic. I don't like not knowing these things.
To shift a pitch one octave up, all you need to do is double the frequency of the input waveform, no matter how complex that wafevorm is — make every event in the waveform take exactly half as long to happen. You don't need to know the frequencies of the individual notes because you're just manipulating the waveform. But if you're doing synthesis, you have to know the frequencies of the individual notes. In other words, polyphonic synthesis requires polyphonic pitch detection; polyphonic pitch shifting does not have that requirement.
