research/opl/novoices

Investigating how Doom decides on a voice to discard when it runs out
of OPL voices.

Findings so far:

 * The instrument affects the voice that is released (different instruments
   give different results).  It is the instrument data that is significant,
   not the instrument number (identical instruments behave the same - 87/88)
 * Sometimes notes are not turned off when they should be.  Sometimes notes
   are turned off when they should not be (bug?)
 * DMX maintains a linked list of the most recently-allocated voices.  These
   are searched backwards when finding a voice to free, so the most recently
   allocated voices are the first to be freed.
 * Different MIDI channels have different "priorities", somehow affected
   by the instrument in use on that channel.
 * When no voices are available, the will search back through the allocated
   voices list and discard the most recently used voice from a channel of
   a lower priority to the channel for the new note.
 * If no lower-priority voices are available, a voice from the same
   channel will be discarded.
 * If no voices from lower priority channels are available, and none from
   the same channel, the first voice in the list is discarded, ignoring
   priority.
 * The "total level" field for the instrument does NOT determine priority.