Re: [linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

Hi Dave, Takashi! I've got timidity up and running now, as a server under OSS. Made me self a new option to read directly from /dev/sequencer2 (The documentation says the input format should be similar to /dev/sequencer, but that's wrong.) The first note I play actually happens, and resembles an acoustic piano with a bit of wobbly reverb. So far so good ... The problem is that it stops rendering as soon as I release the note and then only renders when there is new midi-input (as in massaging the modulation wheel like a mad man ...). I have tried turning active sensing ON on my keyboard to no avail. Then I started to look further into the sources in search for the actual synthesizer. There is some 3MB of cross-platform C-code and headers, and most of it is not what I'm looking for. So far I have only localized the soundfont loader and I am currently reading up on the struct that defines the format. If I can find (or if you can help me find?) the parts that actually assigns and renders a note, then I should be able to write a new CPU-friendly voice-assigner The goal would be to pruduce something like a tmdt--. That is to say: Timidity++ unbloated, a module which only includes the stuff needed to run as a softsynth under Linux. So, where is the damned synthesizer? :) mvh // Jens M Andreasen On tor, 2004-06-10 at 21:47, Dave Phillips wrote: