>> It's clocked at 3,400 times the speed, and is probably pushing over >> 10,000 times as many instructions. Surely it can sequence a semiquaver >> roll without it sounding like turnips being tipped off a truck? >> > completely irrelevant if the CPU has masked interrupts or is stuck on > a kernel lock before moving on to handle the next MIDI note or decides > to schedule something other than your MIDI thread for one reason or > another. > But has anyone done some true blind tests? I always find these claims about 'stuff from the older days' being better a little non-scientific and somewhat 'nostalgia-driven' - nb. nothing bad about nostalgia :) Also the test should probably keep in mind the overall sound-production chain: the original article doesn't mention 'what' is producing the sound driven by midi, probably some external midi synth/module? In this case means the computer is only computing midi, which may be different from running a sequencer *and* softsynth(s) (like a Gb soundfont etc.) on the same machine... Lorenzo _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
