How many voices is enough?
A low cost phone could include a set of simple ringtones in ROM and get by with a maximum 4 to 8 voices. A phone that allowed users to download ringtones from the net should support at leat 24 voice and 32 is preferred. It is very rare for a song to use more than 40 voices. If a song tries to use more voices than are available then old notes that have almost died away are recycled (“stolen”). Thus new notes are always heard.
