rosea grammostola wrote: > >> What other apps are you using? > Ardour, hydrogen, non-sequencer, jack-mixer, qsynth, linuxsampler for > instance... > > You start to think it is something specific to yoshimi/zynaddsubfx... The way zyn works pushes the bounds of good sense in terms of actually generating it's sound in realtime, but you gradually learn the limitations and how to have fun within those limitations. The main difference with yoshi is the audio/midi drivers plus some refinement (nothing radical) to the sound generation processing cycle. So far, yoshimi does both the drivers and the generation cycle better than original zyn, but I think we'd all like zynaddsubfx to catch up and get it right at last. Frankly I can't see that happening any time soon, but I am a registered cynic in that area. > I'll do some more testing with other apps. And I think I can predict the results. If you're running a whole bunch of other apps on the same system at the same time as zyn/yoshi, then the cpu grunt available to zyn/yoshi is going to reduce accordingly, and so is the level of sound complexity you'll be able to achieve in realtime. Currently, yoshimi sets the priority of the midi and audio threads to 50 (or 55, can't remember), and they're competing for cpu with everything else you've got running SCHED_FIFO. If you really, really, really want the sounds zyn/yoshi can produce, then you learn to accommodate its demands and limitations in terms of resource availability. If you can't accommodate those requirements, then you really need to use a different synth. cheers. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
