[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and Softsynths

Dave Griffiths dave at pawfal.org
Wed Dec 11 06:53:00 UTC 2002


On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:58:32 -0800, Paul Winkler wrote
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:53PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> > I'm not quite sure how either of them handle that newfangled poly-phoney
> > that seems so popular these days ;)
> 
> AFAICT, they both punt and do everything monophonic.

There are plans to make ssm polyphonic. It entails implementing subpatches, so
you can group patches together into one module (like pd) which are then
instanced internally per voice. A subpatch will have two types of input,
global and per-voice - the per-voice input is distributed to the multiple
instances, the global sent to all at once. 
The output will be mixed to a normal monophonic output, so you can go on to
process it with effects etc.

It also means getting midi signal routing working, as currently ssm has no
polyphonic means of note signalling, but it's fairly trivial. The only thing
is that it will break the everything plugs into anything rule :(

dave



More information about the Linux-audio-dev mailing list