[LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2010/2/4 Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de>:
> On Thursday 04 February 2010 18:50:28 Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
>> Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ( live )...
>> ...and I don't mean a one-finger melody, but a mutli-polyphonic piano
>>  piece, eventually with sustain held down, which resulted in about 20 to 40
>>  simultaneusly processed voices.
>
> Yes, I have. I believe Ken Restivo, Atte Andre Jensen and many others too.
>
Reliably ? At a latency below 10 ms ?
Which synth ? I don't intend to mistrust you, but I remain
disbelieving for now. :-)

Linuxsampler is well written and reliable, but
when playing intensely, it xran too here.


>> We have dedicated hardware for graphics, why not for audio ?
>
> There are manufacturers selling dedicated PCI-cards to do VST-plugin work and
> free your cpu of that.
>
Interesting, although uneligible for my laptop..

> But whats the purpose of running some piece of (almost)
> generic software on generic platforms, when you still need specialised
> hardware?
>
Being generic means (for the platform) to support a bunch of
specialised applications.
It doesn't bother much to buy additional hardware, in order to make
the system more generic, but not being able to make it
generic enough for being able to use it for a cerain specialised application.
We are used to extend the systems usability through additional peripherials
such as graphic-cards, audio-cards, printers....
That's what has made it a success.


> Of course you can buy dedicated audio-hardware. Its called keyboards and
> synths and mixers and effects (outboard).
>
These make me lose the generality.

> But isn't it easier to have it all in software and carry it around on your
> pc/laptop/usb-stick?
>
It absolutely would, if it gave me the same reliability.


> Please give us some pointers to help you improve performance on your definitely
> un-tuned and probably mis-configured system before making our work bad in
> general.
>
I'm not making it bad. I'm even searching for a way to
make it more valueable by making it more usable.

I don't think my system is so badly configured - how to measure ?
It's not the most recent hardware, I admit.


> Have fun,

Thanks

-- 
E.R.