On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:06:23 -0500, linux-audio-user-request wrote > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:01, Peter Lutek wrote: > > would someone please recommend a softsynth which includes fm capability > > and is efficient enough to run with MINIMUM 16-note polyphony (preferably > > more), for use as a keyboard sound source (esp. as a rhodes clone). alsa > > modular synth seems to make jack's cpu usage runaway when started with > > decent polyphony and anything more than a trivial patch. Try hexter: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html Great DX7 FM emulation, flexible control, and it doesn't work up a steam with 16 polyphony. Plus you can draw on thousands of existing DX7 patches. Good luck, Mercury