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Use $ and $$ delimiters for formulas in Polyphony and VoltageStandards.

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# Key Commands

*In this document, Ctrl should be replaced with Command (⌘) on Mac.*
*In this document, use Command (⌘) instead of Ctrl on Mac.*

## Global commands



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To distinguish them from normal monophonic cables, polyphonic cables appear thicker and can contain any number of channels from 2 to 16.

Without polyphonic cables, patching a polyphonic synth would be very cumbersome, with increasing difficulty the more voices you need to support.
To allow a maximum of \\(N\\) voices to be played, you would need to create \\(N\\) identical VCOs, VCFs, VCAs, etc. with \\(N\\) sets of cables patched between them and then unity-mix their \\(N\\) outputs into a single signal.
To allow a maximum of $N$ voices to be played, you would need to create $N$ identical VCOs, VCFs, VCAs, etc. with $N$ sets of cables patched between them and then unity-mix their $N$ outputs into a single signal.
But with polyphonic cables, you only need to patch one set of modules and then configure a single "source" module to generate a polyphonic output.

## Example


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## Levels

Signals should typically be \\(10V_{pp}\\) (peak-to-peak).
Signals should typically be $10V_{pp}$ (peak-to-peak).
This means that audio outputs should typically be **±5V** (before bandlimiting is applied), and CV modulation sources should typically be **0 to 10V** (unipolar CV) or **±5V** (bipolar CV).

Absolute decibel measurements (e.g. for VU meters) should be relative to 10V amplitude.
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## Pitch and Frequencies

Modules should use the **1V/oct** (volt per octave) standard for CV control of frequency information.
In this standard, the relationship between frequency \\(f\\) and voltage \\(V\\) is \\(f = f_0 \cdot 2^{V}\\), where \\(f_0\\) is the baseline frequency.
Your module might have a frequency knob which may offset \\(V\\).
At its default position, audio-rate oscillators should use a baseline of the note C4 defined by [International Pitch Notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation) ("middle C", MIDI note 60, \\(f_0\\) = 261.6256 Hz = `dsp::FREQ_C4`).
Low-frequency oscillators and clock generators should use 120 BPM (\\(f_0\\) = 2 Hz).
In this standard, the relationship between frequency $f$ and voltage $V$ is $f = f_0 \cdot 2^{V}$, where $f_0$ is the baseline frequency.
Your module might have a frequency knob which may offset $V$.
At its default position, audio-rate oscillators should use a baseline of the note C4 defined by [International Pitch Notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation) ("middle C", MIDI note 60, $f_0$ = 261.6256 Hz = `dsp::FREQ_C4`).
Low-frequency oscillators and clock generators should use 120 BPM ($f_0$ = 2 Hz).

## NaNs and Infinity

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It is recommended to support up to 16 channels, which is the maximum that Rack allows.

Typically each voice in your module can be abstracted into an "engine".
The number of active engines \\(N\\) should be defined by the number of channels of the "primary" input (e.g. 1V/oct input for VCOs, audio input for filters, gate input for envelope generators, etc).
All other secondary inputs with \\(M\\) channels should follow these rules:
- If monophonic (\\(M = 1\\)), its voltage should be copied to all engines.
- If polyphonic with enough channels (\\(M \geq N\\)), each channel voltage should be used in its respective engine.
- If polyphonic but not enough channels (\\(1 < M < N\\)), 0V should be copied to out-of-bounds engines.
The number of active engines $N$ should be defined by the number of channels of the "primary" input (e.g. 1V/oct input for VCOs, audio input for filters, gate input for envelope generators, etc).
All other secondary inputs with $M$ channels should follow these rules:
- If monophonic ($M = 1$), its voltage should be copied to all engines.
- If polyphonic with enough channels ($M \geq N$), each channel voltage should be used in its respective engine.
- If polyphonic but not enough channels ($1 < M < N$), 0V should be copied to out-of-bounds engines.

All of this behavior is provided by `Port::getPolyVoltage(c)`.



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