Taylor Livingston wrote:The Polytope page talks about this a bit. Voices 1 and three are above the original pitch, and voices 2 and 4 are below. The detune knob controls the shift amount of all four voices simultaneously and proportionally. In other words, with all voices mixed in, if you have the detune knob detuning one semitone, then voice one is one semitone up from the original, voice two is one semitone down from the original, voice three is 2 semitones up from original, voice four is 2 semitones down from original.
So, the distance between all voices is not static - it changes proportionally with the detune knob. I attached a picture to help illustrate.
The detuning is proportional, like a whammy pedal or pitch shifter pedal, so if you shift up one semitone when playing a low note, that will still give you a semitone shift on high notes. The highest shift amount is several semitones, so you can get some huge tone clusters if you're into that kind of craziness.But it can also go down to zero shift, so anything from slight thickening to massive weirdo chords-from-a-single-note are possible. To make it easier to describe, I'm imagining that you have set the detune knob for one semitone, but in reality this would be a pretty extreme setting, of course.
Sweet! This makes me want to kiss you! <3
(And place an order next week.)
Edit: save for 8302, are there any dealers in Europe? I can't find anything on the Effektboutique page.
I love mine! 
