RNBO: clicks when voice stealing

Jan M's icon

I noticed that unlike in Max with poly~ that on polyphonic patches with RNBO voice stealing can lead do audible clicks. Has anyone found a good solution to that? Or is is possible to disable voice stealing on polyphonic RNBO patcher?

Christopher Reid  Martin's icon

You can try using the swanramp~ object.

If there are audible clicks please get in touch with customer support.

Jan M's icon

Thanks Christopher,
It's a synth that I am building, so I can't sync swanramp~ to a phasor~ or any other predictable event. [adsr~] -> [rampsmooth~ ] did the trick.

Is there currently another way to prevent voice stealing other than ignoring input to non muted voices
?

Jan M's icon

This is an update inn case someone stumbles across this thread in the future.

I realised that the clicks I encountered were mainly related to the raspberry pi changing dynamically clock speeds when voices are muted. An it seems to be that if a new voice gets activated and the processors clock ramps up, this is what caused some of the clicks.

Following this guide (https://beebom.com/how-overclock-raspberry-pi-4/) and adding good cooling to the Pi 4 I managed to overclock it to 2.3 GHz!

But the main impact had to my experience setting

force_turbo=1

in /boot/config.txt. This seems to prevent the Pi to lower the clock speed when idle and it becomes more responsive to sudden demanding events.