25 Aug
2009
25 Aug
'09
2:31 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
E.g. as a function of legato or staccato played notes to restart or
continue the envelope?
For example, or to do something special when a note is
repeated, depending on where in its envelope(s) the first
one was when its note-off arrived, etc.
Aha, in an extreme case e.g.:
- if the envelope was at point x, then trigger the LFO
- else if it was at point y, then send a program change to an external
effect processor
?
> 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,