[sdiy] Polysynths: 8 voice or 16 voice?

[H.Sergio Alves]

I thought it was about a polysynth…

“Let's say you're making/buying a polysynth. You can make it 8 or 16”

On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 at 22:33, H.Sergio Alves <theatomlabspt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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