[LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

[Ralf Mardorf]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 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,

E.g. as a function of legato or staccato played notes to restart or 
continue the envelope?