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

[rosea grammostola]

cal wrote:
> rosea grammostola wrote:
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>> (All though Zyn from git isn't perfect too, pops and clicks and some 
>> zombifying... sad that such a synth works pretty bad... Such a synth 
>> should work properly with jack, also realtime! I understand that this 
>> thread is about improving it. I hope more people will understand that a 
>> good Zyn with jack is good for linuxaudio and a bad one bad...)
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>
> ... which is precisely what led me to look at the zyn code in the first
> place. Jack io is fairly well understood these days (very different to
> 2002-2005 when ZynAddSubFX was written!) so I figured it had to be
> possible for it to work well. That said, it wasn't exactly a simple task
> to get it to where it is now - major restructuring required.
>   
Yes great job. You should also ask some help on the lad or jack mailinglist
> I noticed earlier that you're running with a jack period size 128. For my
> benefit in seeking robustness, does yoshimi behave any better for you with
> a period size of 256?
>   
Yes > 256 improves playing, but choosing a new instrument bank zombifies 
yoshi directly