Polyphony: Snow vs TI?

[TweakHead]

I thought that interpolation had become integrated with most audio applications by now, but I'm merely presenting a guess here - as I'm not and don't pretend to be an expert on such matters, at the time being we're sailing outside the waters that are most familiar to me, so keep that in mind.

Your last sentence kind of confirms what I was trying to say with the point numbers, I can picture a scenario where a perfectly contoured waveform in analogue wouldn't translate well in digital due to it not being aligned with the points and where that signal would happen to translate into that grid - this is interesting and honestly haven't thought much about it just yet.

No developer here either, but it feels like some algorithm could be implemented to make a good guess based on some results. Meaning, that the estimative could be almost spot on based on the behaviour of the wave at certain points. Always thought that was what interpolation means and does to the waveform. But I'm guessing efforts in that are made to work within a minor error margin, but we're never talking about absolute precision here, just not so good guesses and better guesses - and we still have to factor further latency introduced by the processing of this somehow, I guess.