[linux-audio-user] Issue with TAP plugins

[Robert Jonsson]

Hi,

On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:20, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
> On 11/24/06, Yves Potin <yves at jazzcomputer.org> wrote:
> >          Two questions : am I alone to encounter this issue, and what
> > kind of debug information could be of a help ?
> >         My setup is dual Opteron, 2 Go RAM, SATA Drives, RME Multiface
> > II, Gentoo 2006.1, kernel :  2.6.18.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT and Alsa  Version
> > 1.0.12rc1 provided with this vanilla kernel, normally patched for real
> > time.
> >         Thanks in advance for any kind of help,
> >
> > Y.
>
> TAP plugins are useful, TAP plugins sound nice, I love the multiband
> EQ, TAP reverb sounds real good too.
>
> That being said, they are unusable unless some guru takes a look to
> cleanup the code, to avoid denormal problems, to make these plugins
> "realtime compliant", etc.

If you know some specifics please bring this up with the author, file a bug 
report perhaps. He has been very forthcoming about fixing issues in the past.

Recently I found that denormal issues can be brought to a minimum by 
recompiling your plugins with the appropriate SSE/SSE2/SSE3/3DNOW settings.
I have recompiled them with CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS set to -m3dnow and cpu usage 
has overall dropped, including potential denormal issues.

Regards,
Robert

> __________________
> Marc-Olivier Barre,
> (Markinoko)
> Kinoko en Orbite.

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