[sdiy] Communications with voices in a polyphonic synth

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 11 Mar 2010, at 16:52, cheater cheater wrote:
>  In my opinion it's not good to
> inhibit creative freedom if you don't absolutely positively have to.

No, that's very true, but I need to make some compromises just to get  
the project finished. So the compromises start here.

>> 2) Why should 'matrix destination' packets get priority over key ons?
>> Parameter changes are a lower priority.
>
> Because you want the note to be started with the parameters that
> depend on the note event (velocity, pitch, etc), instead of it
> starting at some default value and then changing quickly to a new
> value. That would be a glitch.

I can get away without this because the voice processors themselves  
will deal with this. As long as they receive the note pitch and  
velocity (e.g. a standard MIDI note on message), they will work out  
any parameter modulation themselves. There's no need to send large  
numbers of modulated parameter values to each voice individually.

>> As far as OSC support is concerned, I haven't heard of it, so I'm not
>> supporting it. If I manage to catch up with MIDI (I'm still 25  
>> years behind
>> present day technology) and get that working, I'll be more than  
>> happy.
>
> OSC is really easy. It's probably going to be easier for you to do OSC
> than midi. For one thing, you can skip the state machine crappiness.
> And it's much easier to debug though, since it's all just plaintext.

Ok, that sounds interesting. I'll read up about it.

Thanks,
Tom