[linux-audio-dev] timidity++ live

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:25:01 -0400,
Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure in which situation it hogs the CPU on Dave's system.
> >But, in general, it might be because of the sample interpolation.
> >The recent timidity uses an expensive method (gaussian).  When many
> >voices are used, it costs high CPU power. 
> >Using a cheaper one like the linear interpolation (either -N0 or
> >-Efresamp=l) will help in such a case.
> >  
> >
> I'll try it and see how it works over time. I'm using TiMidity 2.11.3, 
> it's all right when I start using it, but if I leave it running 
> eventually the CPU usage climbs to a very high amount, sometimes close 
> to 90%, while idling.

do you mean timidity 2.13.0, or really 2.11.3?

> Btw, I don't see the resamp option listed in 'timidity -h', perhaps I 
> need a newer version ? I'd like JACK support with TiMidity anyway, I 
> think the latest version now does, yes ?

yes, grab the latest one from timidity.sf.net.


Takashi