I am working on a polyphonic synthesizer and I am wondering if there is 

a generally accepted way (method and degree) for automatically 

lessening the output volume as the number of sounding voices increases 

Thank you, community, for your help; and thank you, Cycling '74, for 

I am working on a polyphonic synthesizer and I am wondering if there is 
a generally accepted way (method and degree) for automatically 
lessening the output volume as the number of sounding voices increases 
in order to avoid distortion.

Thank you, community, for your help; and thank you, Cycling '74, for 
the new web site and forms.

polyphony-varies-amplitude

If I understand what you're proposing, the voice number output by poly 

does not necessarily = the number of voices. However, I have worked up 

a patch that does indeed divide the the amplitude by the number of 

voices (derived from the busymap thru iter which may be a round about 

This curve 1 1/2 1/3 1/4 . . . sounds too drastic to me though. Before 

I get into experimenting with different curves, I thought that I would 

see if there was a standard that I could Simply adhere too.

I will try out normalize~, it hadn't occurred to me.

If I understand what you're proposing, the voice number output by poly 
does not necessarily = the number of voices. However, I have worked up 
a patch that does indeed divide the the amplitude by the number of 
voices (derived from the busymap thru iter which may be a round about 
way for all I know)).

This curve 1 1/2 1/3 1/4 . . . sounds too drastic to me though. Before 
I get into experimenting with different curves, I thought that I would 
see if there was a standard that I could Simply adhere too.

On around Jan 17, 2006, at 2:11, walbers said something like:

> This curve 1 1/2 1/3 1/4 . . . sounds too drastic to me though. Before 

> I get into experimenting with different curves, I thought that I would 

> see if there was a standard that I could Simply adhere too.

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On around Jan 17, 2006, at 2:11, walbers said something like:
> This curve 1 1/2 1/3 1/4 . . . sounds too drastic to me though. Before 
> I get into experimenting with different curves, I thought that I would 
> see if there was a standard that I could Simply adhere too.
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that's a better andwer, but tim place's [tap.elixir~] is very nice.

i have worked up a method that iterates and counts a busymap from 

poly~. i am happy with the sqrt(1) sqrt(1/2) curve but since it's not 

at audio rate, it is not near as smooth as tap.elixir~. i haven't been 

able to think of another method of determining the # of voices sounding 

in a polly~. i still haven't tried normalize~, which may be my best 

i have worked up a method that iterates and counts a busymap from 
poly~. i am happy with the sqrt(1) sqrt(1/2) curve but since it's not 
at audio rate, it is not near as smooth as tap.elixir~. i haven't been 
able to think of another method of determining the # of voices sounding 
in a polly~. i still haven't tried normalize~, which may be my best 
bet.

polyphony varies amplitude