[LAU] instability of sirlab vocoder and derivatives

[david]

And Zyn/Yoshimi has what to do with Robert P's post about the stability 
of the sirlab vocoder??? ;-)

Danni Coy wrote:
> Changing patches in Zynaddsubfx is all around pretty nasty (not realtime 
> friendly). Perhaps use Yoshimi instead or perhaps increase your jack 
> buffer size.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Robert Persson wrote:
> 
>     Hello
> 
>     Has anyone got the sirlab vocoder or either of its derivatives (the
>     ladspa and lv2 plugins) working properly? If so, which version(s)
>     are you using, and which version(s) of jack and/or any plugin hosts
>     are you using?
> 
>     I have been trying to use v2.9 of the standalone, v.3 of the ladspa
>     plugin and the current version of the lv2 plugin. The standalone
>     plugin barely works; as soon as I change a patch in zynaddsubfx, one
>     or both applications will crash. The LV2 plugin is completely
>     non-functional. It crashes Ingen every single time an attempt is
>     made to load it. It crashes lv2rack more often than not. On the
>     occasions when it does load successfully into lv2rack it behaves
>     really weirdly. It kills all sound to the right alsa out channel, so
>     that no jack client can use it, whether or not that client is
>     directly connected to lv2rack. It makes no sound itself except for
>     the occasional squeak. I can't give you so much detail on the ladspa
>     plugin right now, beyond to say that it really doesn't work either
> 
>     Is it worth persevering with the vocoder, or is it really not usable
>     at the moment?


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