switch~ing voices [was: Re: [PD] nqpoly4 simple instructions?]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>
>> the attached patch shows that the subpatch is [switch~]ed off too  
>> early,
>> but not [switch~]ed on too late.
>>
>>> So for tight timing switching on has to be done at least one  
>>> block *in
>>> advance*.
>>
>> if i interprete correctly, what your patch is telling me, then one  
>> would
>> have to switch *off* one block *later*. it wouldn't be necessary  
>> to know
>> in advance, when to switch on, though. it seems like it is enough  
>> to add
>> 1.5ms to each [delay] that schedules the switch-off-messages.
>
> Ah, yes, you're right: I didn't interpret the patch correctly.
> Attached is another version which allows to test different delay times
> and also lets you compare a switched off with a non-switched signal.
> It shows, that timing is indeed no problem when switching off
> subpatches, which is good news to me.

There could be a number of idle voices that are switched on to  
prevent this. So you could specify, say 5 voices always ready, then  
whenever one voice starts playing, it also turns on another idle voice.

This would be harder to implement, but would be a nicer outcome than  
a hard-coded 1.5 ms delay.

.hc

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