On Tuesday, July 12, 2011, martin brinkmann <
mnb@martin-brinkmann.de> wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 01:55 AM, Jeffrey Concepcion wrote:
>> Also, it seems to me that I would need
>> one oscillator per note, which is ridiculous if you want to make something
>> isn't that CPU intensive.
>
> it depends on the cpu. i have made a 'quick and dirty' cluster-synth
> patch (attached) with 192 not very (or at all) optimized oscillators,
> which produces about 20 percent load on my machine (3 ghz intel core).
> it should run on a atom-netbook. if you need more instances, it might be
> too much though. (and less voices do not sound that awful too...)
>
> another possible approach i can think of would be using ifft as a
> oscillator bank. though it is probably not trivial to calculate the
> spectrum. (or you will have to use a very large blocksize, to get enough
> 'frequency-resolution')
>
> bis denn!
> martin
>