I just wrote a quick test of what happens when you play hundreds of
oscillators. Thanks to nqpoly4, its quite easy. Basically, I wrote
a simple patch that detunes the oscillator based on instance number.
So you get hundreds of oscillators slightly detuned around a center
frequency. The PowerMac G5 2.3GHz that I am on right now could
handle 900 instances cleanly.
Just put these files in one folder and double click many-osc-test.pd
to run.
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