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VOICE ALLOCATION

(HOLD/CHORD/POLYPHONY)

Moog One uses a number of sophisticated elements to make the most of the available voices. Grouped
together in one area of the Front Panel, these features include the

HOLD

button, the CHORD functions,

and the POLYPHONY module.

HOLD

The

HOLD

button behaves in much the same way as a sustain pedal –

but with a few important differences. When the

HOLD

button is set to

On (lit), notes being held when the button was pressed will continue to
sound. If new notes are added in a legato style – that is, they are played
while other notes are still held – these new notes will be added to the
current stack of held notes. If new notes are added in a non-legato
fashion, where all of the notes have been released before the new notes
are played, the previous notes will stop sounding, and these new non-
legato notes will take their place. The

HOLD

button also acts as a latch

for the Arpeggiator.

NOTE:

The

HOLD

button and the Sustain pedal can interact in the following way. If the

HOLD

button

is On and the Sustain pedal is also being held (On) then playing new non-legato notes will not clear the
previously held notes, they will simply be added to the sustained notes.

CHORD

Using the CHORD function – often called Chord Memory – allows multiple
notes to be stacked on a single key. In turn, each key will play also play a
stack of notes pitched at those same intervals. If the CHORD function is
set to a major triad, every individual key will play a major triad – with the
root being the pitch of the key itself. The choice of notes is totally up to
the user; it need not be a traditional chord at all.

TIP:

The CHORD function offers a massive sound with very little effort, but

it also can quickly chew up polyphony. Remember that, with the Moog One
three oscillator architecture, you can also set up the Oscillators’ tunings to
play a major triad on each key while using only a single voice. That said,

there are many situations where the CHORD function is the way to go.

In the Moog One architecture, the CHORD function is the last module to be presented with note values.
The priority runs from [Notes played on the keyboard or via MIDI] to [notes generated by the Arpeggiator]
to [interval values saved with the Chord Memory]. This means that every note generated by the
Arpeggiator (or Sequencer, for that matter) is in turn fed into the CHORD function, with every arpeggiated
or sequenced note playing back as a chord. This makes the Chord feature even more powerful.

USING THE CHORD FUNCTION

Press the

LEARN

button to turn on the Chord Learn function (the

LEARN

button will light). To create a

chord, play any series of notes. The first note you play will clear the Chord Learn function and will also
set the root note. When you are finished adding notes to your chord, press the

LEARN

button a second

time (the button will go dark) to turn the Chord Learn function off. Now, when the CHORD button is
turned On, each note will play a transposed version of that chord. One of the Moog One Global settings
is the Silent Learn option, which mutes the active synth while the Chord Learn function is On, allowing
the chord to be entered in a live venue without the audience hearing this take place. The flip side is that
the performer can’t hear it either. Both the chord created using the

LEARN

button and the state of the

CHORD button (On/Off) are saved per Synth.

TIP:

When entering a chord, Moog One will recognize the first note entered as the Root note; in this way

you can enter a chord using an inversion, and it will still be transposed correctly.