[linux-audio-user] Re: Does anybody actually perform with ZynAddSubFX?

[Carlo Capocasa]

Hi all! Thank you very much for your replies, I really appreciate the 
amount of support here. First off, sorry about the harsh tone towards 
Zyn; I was lured into jumping to conclusions in order avoid taking blame 
for the instability. Reinvestigating, I found:

* I was running Zyn at 96kHz as an experimentally and somehow switched 
my mindset to 'production'.
* I was running ardour on the side (I was going to do my live mixing 
with it)
* There was a DJ flanger running in ardour.
* I was running a drum kit with six sub-patches, a synth bass and a 
synth guitar.

Toning down Jack to 44.1 kHz and using Jack-Rack for vocal effects 
instead of ardour gave me a workable solution for live use.

I was able to test this solution for twelve hours by visiting my 
girlfriend 'to say goodnight and leave again' without turning the 
sequencer off. When returning (of course) the next morning I was 
surprised to see not a single XRun.

This didn't quite work for recording, but to get the Synth into ardour I 
managed to get by by increasing the buffer size to 4/1024.

So one could consider this matter resolved and suggest to myself a dual 
4GHz AMD box to fulfill my dream of performing live with Zyn at 96kHz.

I would like to see some movement on Zyn though; specifically, it would 
be nice to see the Zyn components converted to LADSPA plugins or DSSI 
components for use in patchable synths.

Thanks again to everyone for your concern and helpfulness!

Carlo