[LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:25:17PM +0300, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

> Ideally the synth should use some kind of priority mechanism when 
> stealing voices. Killing the oldest one is not the best way. For example 
> some kind of psychoacoustic algorithm could be used to find voices that 
> are masked out by the other voices playing at louder levels. Some voices 
> may have decayed to inaudible levels or their pitch may be close enough 
> to the new note to be played.

Or some _explicit_ feedback from somewhere downstream the patch
telling the voice allocator that a particular voice has decayed
far enough to be a candidate for re-use. My exploratory designs
for AMS II (gathering dust since four years) did exactly that.

Ciao,

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FA

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