User's Manual

485 Live Instrument Reference
24.6.7 Glide and Spread
Operator’s Pitch Display and Shell Parameters.
Operator includes a polyphonic glide function. When this function is activated, new notes will
start with the pitch of the last note played and then slide gradually to their own played pitch.
Glide can be turned on or off and adjusted with the Glide Time control in the pitch display.
Operator also offers a special Spread parameter that creates a rich stereo chorus by using two
voices per note and panning one to the left and one to the right. The two voices are detuned,
and the amount of detuning can be adjusted with the Spread control in the pitch section of the
shell.
Tip: Whether or not spread is applied to a particular note depends upon the setting of the
Spread parameter during the note-on event. To achieve special effects, you could, for instance,
create a sequence where Spread is 0 most of the time and turned on only for some notes. These
notes will then play in stereo, while the others will play mono. (Note: Spread is a CPU-intensive
parameter.)
The pitch section also contains a global Transpose knob.
24.6.8 Strategies for Saving CPU Power
If you want to save CPU power, turn off features that you do not need or reduce the number of
voices. Specifically, turning off the filter or the LFO if they do not contribute to the sound will save
CPU power.
For the sake of saving CPU resources, you will also usually want to reduce the number of voices
to something between 6 and 12, and carefully use the Spread feature. The Interpolation and
Antialias modes in the global display can also be turned off to conserve CPU resources.