[LAU] [Zynaddsubfx-user] zyn and the art of software maintenance

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 15:46:51 EDT 2009


Folderol wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:18:38 +1000
> cal <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> And so there's 0.010, <http://www.graggrag.com/zyn/yoshimi-0.010.tar.bz2>.
>>
>> I've tested it with an older version of cmake, so hopefully the lack of
>> 'unset' nonsense is over.
>>
>> cheers, Cal
>>     
>
> OK, just given this some torture testing and it is coming out very, very
> well :)
>
> The best bit was running 'Lair Of The Dragon King' and recording it via
> TimeMachine, while at the same time playing along to it with my MIDI
> keyboard using the Hyper Matrix patch. Processors peaking at around 70%
> but not a single pffuzz burble or click :D
>
> All the other tunes ran fine and sounded correct.
>
> I was able to change voice patches while running, there were clicks
> sometimes - especially when loading the more complex ones, but I'm not
> at all surprised by that. There were no zombies of major screw-ups.
>
> I was also able to silently open the virtual keyboard and use both the
> mouse pointer and the computer keyboard to play along, without any
> noticeable problems.
>
> I should also add, I was reloading parameter sets without quitting
> yoshimi at all. With zyn 2.2.1 this is a guaranteed way to get zombies.
>
> Minor quibbles:
> It seems ccmake can't run without a default cache script. I have to run
> cmake first then go back to ccmake, then cmake again.
>
> I'd removed a dev package (no I don't know why either) and it reported
> a missing package but didn't say which one it was! That was fun for a
> while :)
>
> On the main display, the instrument name is above the box, not in it.
>
>
> P.S.
> I would really, really like direct recording back.
> ... please
> ... pretty please :)
>
>   
Strange... that it works so badly here. It must be cursed... When I 
reach my mouse to it, it almost start to cry and zombify directly...

\r



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