another jigsaw piece for understanding the Yamaha CS synth magic

[Ingo Debus]

Christian Hofmann wrote:
> could it be that the CSes use some kind of least-recently-used algorithm?
> Playing a chord would assign the voices in a quasi-random fashion,
> because all notes start at almost the same time. Maybe building up the
> chords in a defined order can shed some light (think of the harmony vocal
> arrangements of songs like Sugar Baby Love or Twist and shout, and you'll
> know what I mean). Could be the order of _releasing_ the chord notes as
> well.

The order of releasing the notes is used in my polysynth too: voice
stealing is done from the voice with the release longest ago. Using the
order of pressing the keys doesn't make much sense IMHO.

Ingo