[PD] overcome nqpoly4 limitations

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:

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> Frank Barknecht wrote:
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>> I think, a successor of nqpoly4 should not care about voice  
>> allocation
>> at all by itself.
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> Actually, in the end what I'm looking for is exactly dynamic voice  
> allocation, so that I can get PD to act like SuperCollider and only  
> let abstractions create a CPU load when they are actually being  
> played, instead of all the time. The granular synthesis work I'm  
> doing is just too heavy otherwise. I'd hoped nqpoly would do that,  
> but I'm still not sure. Maybe it's just a way of spawning a bunch  
> of abstractions at once, regardless how heavy they run...


[nqpoly4] will allocate the given number of voices.  Then you can  
control the CPU using a [switch~] in the replicated abstraction.   
Whenever that abstraction receives a message, it would first turn on  
[switch~], then execute the message.  Then after sending the  
"complete" bang, it would turn off the [switch~].  That should cover it.

.hc


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