[LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:32:58AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This "was" a very good mechanism at the times when the first synth were 
> able to play different sounds for different MIDI channels, but tone 
> generators were to expensive, because of technical limits,...

Note that the idea is *not* to have such feedback for the reasons
you mention. It is to make such things _explicit_ and user patchable
so a voice allocator can do more sophisticated things than most do
today. For example decide that a new note should not be a new voice
but a continuation of an existing one, depending on some configured
or even patchable conditions. 

Ciao,

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FA

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