Re: [fluid-dev] Re: Fluidsynth voice stealing

[Norbert Schnell]

On 14 Oct 2005, at 5:40, Josh Green wrote:
> Proposed changes (some stuff still needs to be researched):
> - Improve volume level rating (keep track of voice levels?)
> - Improve voice age rating (ticks and/or noteID)
> - Add settings for selecting voice stealing presets and setting custom
> weighted rating values
> - Add variables to voice structure for each criteria (ratings get  
> stored
> here for statistics)
> - Add voice kill log to track what voices got killed and the criteria
> ratings of the voice (the reason)

Great!

On 14 Oct 2005, at 9:15, Toby wrote:
> As already reported, such an algorithm needs to take into account the
> current position in the volume envelope.  The quietest voice might  
> be a
> note that has not started climbing the attack slope yet; we don't want
> to kill such a note.  The quietest of those voices which are past the
> attack phase, instead, might be a good candidate.

BUT (I insist, since Toby put it so clear):

So this becomes:
 - Improve volume level rating and limit to notes beyond attack  
phase (keep track of voice levels?)

And needs in addition:
 - Add rating for notes in attack phase

Elsewhere:
  synth.voice-steal.attack-rating

And what about a little switch for those anyway:
> default        // The current algorithm (with improvements)
> oldest        // Oldest voice gets killed
> quietest    // Quietest voice gets killed

Norbert