Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 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.
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
?
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