Polyphony in Blok

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Currently, the [BLOK] audiocore has only 4 voices available.. this low limit was chosen for historical CPU reasons. It might be fixed sooner or later.

To save extra CPUpower, the core will automatically try to determine if a block should be polyphonic at all. For example: it makes no sense for the average non-resetting LFO to run polyphonic, so the core will just route the output of a single LFO instance to 4 separate instances of an oscillator if the rest of the patch is polyphonic.

If the core decides a block has to be monophonic, it will draw a yellow border around it.

Take special care of adding monophonic generators to a polyphonic patch! Because the monophonic generator will be copied to all 4 voices, it will sound 4 times as loud!

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