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Originally Posted by cowby
Such as I got a cell phone battery-meter like symbol. What the hell is that?
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I believe that's a patch complexity meter. It tells you how DSP hungry the sound is. The more complex the sound, the lesser the polyphony (number of notes you can play at any time).
With very simple patches you have have up to 80 notes polyphony. With more complex patches you have considerably less.
Things like oscillator type and unison contribute to lesser polyphony, for example. Some oscillator types are more power hungry than others. Unison multiplies instances of the sound for a thicker sound, at the expense of polyphony. Often it's about compromise but this shouldn't be too much of an issue with the TI, it has lots of DSP power compared to former Virus models (Virus C/B).