[LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2010/2/8 Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>:
>
> not all PCs can do it. but its simply not true that "PCs can't do it".
>

Accepted.


When running any 32 polyphonic hw synth,
it is able to do those 32 voices anytime.
When running out of the voices, something will
happen (e.g. voice killing/stealing). But it won't start any noise.

Something to concider
Would a check for guaranteed voices be possible for a soft-synth ?
That would require an extensive deterministic behavior, I think.
Instead of noise generation, maybe some sort of interpolation/silence
for sample values
could be used, when running out of processing power.


Kind regards
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E.R.