Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

Fons Adriaensen wrote: 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, in the 80ies there were no DSP chips, 4MB RAM were very expensive :D etc., I still have got a 40 MB hard disk, that was more expensive than the complete dual core PC I've today. It's easy to understand that your AMS II is gathering dust :). I had to dust my Oberheim ;). It would be suspect if somebody would write to the list, that e.g his Linux synth don't have enough voices. I often wonder why a lot of synth emulation don't sound as good as the original synth, even if comparing a held note sounds identical to an original synth. They differ in their behaviour, when playing a song, but not by comparing single held notes. To limit the polyphony today seems to be more important for some usage, than thinking about not having enough voices :). Cheers, Ralf