[sdiy] Polysynths: 8 voice or 16 voice?

[H.Sergio Alves]

The last one was sarcasm… hence the 😆

On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 at 22:31, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jul 2026, H.Sergio Alves via Synth-diy wrote:
>
> >> From a producer point of view 1024 would be enough
>
> You missed the part about "it doesn't do multitimbrality,
> so there's only one sound coming out of it at any time".
>
> So 88 voices would be enough to achieve full piano behavior, 127 if you
> want to go full MIDI note range.
>
> From a practical perspective, 8 hence are probably ok, unless you insist
> of playing 4-chords with long release time and no voice-stealing.
>
> But at just 25% cost increase compared to the 8-voice model, as
> outlined, let's go 16, just to be safe.
>
> Rainer
>
>
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