Hey again, > With those configurations, and thanks to your advices, the results was pretty good. > XRUNS occured only when I opened/closed Battery, and the CPU never went over 16%! > The only annoying thing was a strange vibration in the built-in reverb. Interesting, never had a problem with the reverb, who knows what's causing that....?! > But, in the end, you were right: it's better to use a native sampler because it'is more stable and cpu-optimized. Ya, i was just trying to be a friend, and save you from wasting time. Quite frankly, from a "sampling prespective" ~ battery3 isn't even that great. (especially when using wine) it's okay, but there is way better options for sampling in linux... battery3 does however come with awesome drumkits/samples... > I'm happy that I can use Battery3 on GNU Linux, but in the (near) future I'm planning to switch to > a native sampler, maybe Hydrogen.. hydrogen is also a CPU pig, and even more limited in it's sampling capabilities than Battery3. I would still recommend using Specimen, LinuxSampler or Tapeutape. (they are lighter, and in my opinion much more powerful). these sampling tools are extremely CPU-efficient, don't have bloat. You will get good performance out of any of them, and shouldn't experience xruns. I am currently using Specimen. It has nice features that remind me of my old Akai Mpc2000XL. ie: resonant filter (per sound), sample-layering, envelopes, etc. it also has LFO (like battery3), and under the velocity tab, you can setup your velocity based on things like cut-off (filter), pitch, etc. (much like Battery3 does also). This allows each sample played to be more dynamic. Specimen is like a mix of my old MPC, and how samples are treated/used by Trackers (ie: renoise, buzz, fasttracker2, etc). you can do some interesting things. > So thanks again for your help :-) I don't mind at all. I will add though, lots of VSTi synths work very well in Wine. I use Most N.I instruments, just not Battery3. G-force plugins work nice too. In fact, if you want to know the "best supported VST's in Wine" ~ just goto http://www.kvraudio.com ... and search for VSTs... anything that is "receptor compatible" should work well - as the "Receptor" is essentially a rackmount PC, running Fedora-core (linux) with Wine, to host windows VST. - just a tip :) jordan
