On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:06:51PM +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello all, > > Updates of jconv, now called jconvolver, and the zita-convolver > library are available on the usual place: > <http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads>/ > > The new zita-convolver is API-compatible to the previous > release but not binary compatible. If you have any code > using it please recompile. > > Release notes for jconvolver and fconvolver 0.8.4 > ------------------------------------------------- > > Jconvolver is a real-time convolution engine. It > can execute up to a 64 by 64 convolution matrix > (i.e. 4096 simultaneous convolutions) as long as > your CPU(s) can handle the load. It is designed > to be efficient also for sparse (e.g. diagonal) > matrices. Unused matrix elements do not take > any CPU time. > > In contrast to e.g. BruteFir, jconvolver uses > multiple partition sizes, small ones at the start > of the impulse response and progressively longer > ones for the rest. This allows it provide both > zero processing delay while still remaining > efficient in CPU use. > > Fconvolver performs the same processing on files > instead of real-time. > > For this relaese the package and the binaries > have been renamed to avoid a conflict with an > existing 'jconv' package (related to the Japanese > language). > > Functionally this version is identical to jconv > 0.8.0. See README.CONFIG for the syntax of the > config files. Since 0.8.0 it has been possible > to name and connect the Jack ports. The related > commands have been added to README.CONFIG. > > Jconvolver will work with libzita-convolver 1.0.0, > but upgrading to 2.0.0 is recommended. Note that > if you update the library you have to recompile > this package. > > NOTE: Jconvolver will normally not work correctly > when used with Jack's freewheeling mode, e.g. when > exporting in Ardour. It _could_ actually work when > used on a single processor system, but don't rely > on this. This release of jconvolver will print a > warning when freewheel mode is entered. Really? A huge number of tracks I've published, were mixed in Ardour freewheeling mode, using jconv for reverb. Worked fine for me, at least with the older versions. > > The 'mkwavex' utility from previous versions has > been replaced by 'makemulti' which offers some more > options. > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
