Clavia Nord Modular V3 User Manual page 221

NORD MODULAR V3.0 9. Appendix: Sound engine
If we had chosen to create the whole patch only in the Poly Voice Area, i.e. all modules would had been
duplicated for each voice, we would have got the following result:
Sound engine 2 Sound engine 3 Sound engine 4
Sound engine 1
This comparison shows one benefit of using both voice areas of the patch, the Poly Voice Area and the
Common Voice Area. In the first example our patch occupied only one Sound engine, and in the second
example the patch required two Sound engines, even though the voice amount was the same in both cases.
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