Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

Hello Emanuel! I see, that you've already got some answers, here's mine though. I have a 1.8GHz CPU, OK I run NO GUI at all, yet still. I play all my music "live". I play sessions with LinuxSampler (big pianos and all), I also record them that way, so the harddisk recorder is running at the same time. I used ZynAddSubFX's mini text-UI live, hydrogen, Fluidsynth with up to 200MB soundfonts and I even did a bit of csound playing live with a soprano voice emulation, so that's quite far from simple analogue. I could also do LinuxSampler with jconv running with some referb without problems. Admittedly, sometimes - when I had bad kernels - it wouldn't work that well. But now I have a 2.6.30 kernel, self-compiled, and everything is fine so far. I hope that somehow encourages you to go on. I know of others even using a couple of VSTIs at the same time, wiring them into Ardour and the like. So it's most certainly a question of kernel and settings and maybe taking a look at all the processes running, and which of them might be unnecessary. I've also seen, that my system installed a good deal of software, which I never needed, some of it daemons running all the time. Kindly and encouraginly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de