On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:48:32AM -0400, Rob wrote: > 10 years ago I was using a program called Vaz that emulated a > 3-oscillator analog synth with portamento and ring mod and other > nifty stuff, and ran without a hiccup on my 100MHz 486 box > running Win95. I know Zyn (like other modern softsynths) is > capable of doing a lot more, but shouldn't it be able to do a > monophonic two-oscillator synth on a P3 of any speed without > hiccupping and without needing to install unofficial kernel > patches and whatnot? Pure Data has always performed well for me on lower end hardware and i've never run anything but Debian pre-compiled kernels with no pre-empt stuff. Of course, it depends what you're doing, but definately for a couple of oscillators doing simple subtractive/additive synthesis it works beautifully on slower machines. Not sure about 100MHz though! Started using it on a 500MHz machine, so that is definately ok. Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
