Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog
From: Jens M Andreasen (jens.andreasen_AT_chello.se)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 17:33:04 EEST
On fre, 2004-06-11 at 13:10, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> > ...
> > So, where is the damned synthesizer? :)
>
> It's in there! ;-}
>
> Now, you might have already tried Fluidsynth, but I thought I would mention it
> for completeness.
> Fluidsynth is also a soundfont player which "might" be more aimed at realtime
> synth.
Yep! This exactly what I was looking for, thankyou!
It is not the same soundfonts as timidity, but there seems to be lots of
emu compatible sounds around to get going for a while :)
>
> It has it's own sets of problems though, none that really matter to me though,
> I think it's an excellent synth.
>
>
> /Robert
>
> ps.
> As for the CPU hogging, fluidsynth had a problem earlier when the reverb was
> enabled. When there was little or none signal into the reverb it went totally
> bonkers and consumed pretty much all cpu (a denormal problem I seem to
> remember).
> So the obvious question is, when timidity consumes all cpu, is the reverb
> enabled?
> ds.
>
> >
> > mvh // Jens M Andreasen
> >
> <...>
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