On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:16:32PM -0600, Chris Caudle wrote: > Even staying silent is not a zero cost operation. But very close. All the process function has to do is to write zeros to the output buffer. That can be done very fast. If having to do this is a problem, then actually generating some sound would be a much bigger one. Which means that things would fail anyway. It is of course up to the synth to be aware of inactive voices and reduce its own processing effort for those. Maybe some don't do that. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
