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

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf 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?

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.

-- 
FA
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.
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