Re: [LAU] Eee As Synth Engine?

holotone@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> I've been tinkering recently with my Eee running Xubuntu and a newly
> acquired M-Audio Axiom 49 USB Midi Keyboard; I think it'd be just about
> as great as it could get if I could use the Eee as a synth engine via
> XynAddSubFX or similar - Unfortunately, I've been unable to tweak my
> JACK settings to the point that all stutters and chops have been
> eliminated. I understand that the Eee specs are quite low (900mhz proc,
> 512MB RAM), but watching my resource usage while I'm playing shows the
> processor at less than 50% and RAM holding steady at 60% or so - This
> would lead me to believe that my problem is configuration related.
>
> Any other Eee users out there had any luck getting JACK fine tuned to
> the Eee? Since we're all working on nearly identical hardware, perhaps
> we could swap configs?

Have you tried another synth? AFAIK ZynAddSubFX isn't realtime safe, and
hence doesn't make a good test candidate.

Greets,

Pieter
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Received on Sat Jan 12 16:15:03 2008