have you tried connecting other midi devices in a similar way? It sounds like there could be some midi clock or midi machine control issues happening, you could try disabling midi cc receive on the poly cinematic to see if that helps.

Yes the latest version supports this feature

Pitch envelope is midiCC 80, or Shift + Env Depth. Its not stored after a power cycle so it should be easy to get rid of.

For true polyphonic playing you'll need to use midi direct from your DAW and connect with the cable supplied. Poly Cinematic can additionally be controlled by CV/Gate and this will pitch all the oscillators at once. CV can also be used to select stored chords and control filter frequency.

I've attached a beta firmware that should address this issue, let me know how you get on and we'll release it on the main site.

the attack does make the body of the kick sound quieter, so the click becomes more dominant, this is true. Its something we're looking into.

the midi input is a stereo trs socket, so it does feel different and thats normal. It is probably a fault with the blue cable but unless you have spares its going to be difficult to confirm. where did you purchase from?

looking into this, I think we will can improve the trigger sensitivity in a future software update. The short delay is there to avoid double triggers but probably a bit on the cautious side at 5ms.

Thats interesting. Thanks for sharing.

The LED will remain lit, it doesn’t change. Have you tried with a different usb cable and a different usb output from the Mac?

Are you Mac or PC? PC may require a USB driver update.

It should work seamlessly with a Mac, have you tried using a different USB cable?

you can also use the chord feature over midi, hold Shift and Trigger for 2 secs. But I hope you can get to the bottom of this issue, I'm very interested to see how well it works with the Nifty Keys once you get your head around it.🙂

The Poly Cinematic can pitch up 5 octaves from a 0-5v CV but the pitch also depends on the root note in the current chord memory, and also the setting of the Pitch knob, and the Pitch Bend setting. So there are several factors that might limit a C3 pitch to a maximum 5v input. You could try playing in a higher note into the chord memory using midi but this will be the lowest note you can play over CV (0v). Let us know how yo get on.

We have considered this feature already. There are 2 problems: at the moment the 7 detune values are calculated together, not for each voice, and secondly there are not enough spare knobs to do this intuitively (shift Detune is used for dynamic temperament micro-tuning) but I like the idea because it is a natural phenomenon when string sections play, their tuning is more detuned at the start.

You should definitely see the Poly Cinematic when using a Mac. Make sure you are using Chrome and enter the system bootloader mode by holding the BOOT button down, and then pressing, and releasing the RESET button on the Daisy board at the back of the Poly Cinematic.

if it works with another keyboard then it is a firmware issue that we can fix, otherwise we will need to do some further tests

Hi Matt, Yes I understand what you're saying. I think functioning as an offset makes more sense, I'll look into this. The smoothing might be a bit trickier to implement without using up more resources, or affecting deliberately stepped changes in values.

Poly Cinematic doesn't sum the L+R as mono when only one output is used but OK if the spread control is mono by default. I did some tests already and it works quite nicely, although random didn't sound so good as you say, so instead it plays the first voice in the centre and alternately pans subsequent notes left then right by various amounts.

That would be a nice feature. Apart from mono compatibility on the hardware side it would be possible without using anymore resources. We'll look into it.