On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:14:00 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:16:32PM -0600, Chris Caudle wrote:
>
> > Even staying silent is not a zero cost operation.
>
> But very close. All the process function has to do is to
> write zeros to the output buffer. That can be done very
> fast. If having to do this is a problem, then actually
> generating some sound would be a much bigger one. Which
> means that things would fail anyway.
>
> It is of course up to the synth to be aware of inactive
> voices and reduce its own processing effort for those.
> Maybe some don't do that.
>
> Ciao,
>
However one must make the distinction between an inactive voice and a
non-sounding one. In the latter case processes will still be running to check if
there are any notes to deal with, and any in-line effects will be fully
operational - reverb being one of the heavyweights.
-- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Wed Feb 24 00:15:05 2016
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