25 Aug
2009
25 Aug
'09
11:54 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:32:58AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
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
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia รจ troppo stretta e lunga.
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,...