vpo-organist wrote:mnailor wrote:I set the polyphony limit to 8192 voices and neither the CPU meter nor polyphony ever goes yellow or red during actual playing, although I can force it by mashing forearm chords on Nancy.
This is the mistake of some people - they limit the polyphony and claim that they can play all sample sets with a mini PC (which is not designed for maximum performance) without any restrictions.
Of course the polyphony never goes into the red area, because you have limited it
Hauptwerk cuts the releases and therefore you can hear how tones drop out especially at low polyphony.
Please set the polyphony to 20000 and do the test with the forearm and the Nancy. It will look different, guaranteed. Then you will see the true CPU performance.
But the polyphony meter does go into the yellow and red when you exceed the polyphony limit, indicating when it has dropped releases or sustain samples. When it's inside the green range, there are no voices being dropped, or perhaps very rarely.
Not a mistake -- Nancy doesn't use the polyphony limit on my machine *unless* I use my forearms. And of course I tested with the max limit of 32k. Yes, that gives me glitches when I play 15 - 20 note "chords" 4 - 8 times a second with literally all stops and couplers drawn, but I don't have any music that calls for that. In tutti playing of actual music on Nancy, the instrument never even gets close to the 8k limit. I set the limit that low so the polyphony meter's high water mark tells me something useful, like giving me a warning that a Windows update has messed up the performance tuning again.
Specifically, a brutal forearm test (a ruler actually to press accurately) of 15 note chords with pedal, at gradually increasing speeds and holding for long releases, with MIDI playback to repeat consistently, on Nancy with 4 perspectives:
At 96k/512 the polyphony limit was 8k to keep the CPU meter below the red.
At 96k/1024 the limit was 10k.
At 48k/256 the limit was 15k.
At 48k/512 the limit was 20k.
During normal playing at 96k/512, the 8k limit doesn't drop any voices.