[linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

[Jens M Andreasen]

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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