[linux-audio-user] Tao Synth

[Ken Restivo]

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:41:38PM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
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> >On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:24PM +0100, Florent Berthaut wrote:
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> >>Florent Berthaut a ?crit :
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> >>>Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>>Has anyone managed to compile tao synth 
> >>>(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/taosynth/) recently ?
> >>>If so, what are the changes i have to make in the sources ?
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>Flo
> >>>
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> >>Ok, my fault, i was trying with the 2000 version because i had only seen 
> >>the old website  ...
> >>The 2006 version compiles and works just great ;)
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> >
> >Hmm. No JACK or realtime support, or ALSA MIDI, AFAICT. 
> >
> >Anyone working on that?
> >
> >JACK client API looks pretty simple, but I have no idea if there are 
> >realtime-incompatible evils lurking in this code which would make it 
> >impossible to JACK-ify.
> >
> >  
> Tao is quite awesome... but realtime... or even fast as molasses it is 
> not. :)

Really? Even on a fast CPU?

Hmm... then another strategy might be to use it only to generate a range of notes, and then use Swami to generate soundfonts for playing via MIDI.

- -ken
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