I have problem with lowest note not being stolen. When I hold sustain and play a bunch of notes, my PB6 correctly steals notes and triggers new ones. But it’s not a thing with the lowest note. It still plays, unless I hit even lower note, then the new lowest behaves the same. Am I doing something wrong? Voicing is set to 1.Poly Cycle and 5.Steal Oldest, but I tried every other combination.
Mine is doing this too. Even when set to Steal Lowest, it does not steal that lowest note.
According to the manual, “lowest” does not mean “lowest note” based on pitch but lowest based on the velocity. So, in the setting “steal lowest”, the note with the lowest velocity in a chord is about to be reused if the max. polyphony has been reached.
But nevertheless: It seems that regardless of the mode chosen, the lowest note based on pitch is never stolen.
I wonder if this is a bug or a design choice to purposely never take away the bass note, regardless of Steal setting. If so, they should at least state that in the manual.
I suppose that’s a firmware bug or sth and hope they’ll fix it. Playing live with sustain pedal is quite problematic with this issue. Going from 6 note voicing to another 6 note voicing while holding pedal, results with 1 note missing.
Reading through the firmware history of the PolyBrute, I found the following “feature” in the 2.0.0.648 firmware:
- Changed voice stealing policy in order to prevent the lowest note (in pitch) from being stolen
It seems that the behaviour is intentional. Unfortunately, Arturia has missed this in the manual.
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I imagine this feature could be useful, bo I see this pointless and problematic. They should just add another option. Anyway, thanks for this deep research! 
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