On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 16:04, Kassen <signal.automatique@gmail.com> wrote:
That's cleanest sound-wise, not very hard and very ChucKist in structure. On the
downside it's hard to guarantee that you won't run out of CPU that
way.

Okay, the devil is in the details.  I actually had a fixed array of N of instruments, and would steal the oldest instrument if the limit was hit.   There are other strategies.  For example, you can have a soft limit that allow any number noteOn's, but start ramping down the oldest notes to keep the number of instruments at or below N.

Ah, DSP... somehow it always starts interesting and then gets to
choices that hurt a bit however you make them.

Totally off topic, but did everyone see the paper on the new 'faster than fft' algorithms?  

lightweight: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms-0118.html
heavyweight: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2501v1

Enjoy...