Re: [LAU] [ANN] Bristol 0.60.0 Command Line Interface

To get this now you need to select Unison, and start bristol with the parameters below. In the current release the code does a default invocation of the emulator parameters which limit the voices to something like the original, eg, the mini gets a single voice (that rolls all the time irrespective of what notes you give it) and the Prophet-5 gets, er, five. It should introduce a little 'detune' to make the sound move a bit more but. It is pretty arbitrary detune, it doesn't change with time, only with key events and I was considering making it a bit more like temperature drift over time which at the moment it isn't. startBristol -prophet -voices 32 When you select the emulator I configure some defaults that get reported in the output. The assigned voices should all get a different amount of detune as that is how it is coded. Andrew reported that this 32 voice unison, dual oscillator synth, currently uses about 65% CPU on a 2.X GHz processor, or about 2% per voice although you will need a late 0.50 or 0.60 to do that. Previous releases (0.40) required a bit more CPU, about 10% per voice, which means this same attempt would make Jack very, very unhappy - a realtime thread asking for 320% CPU. This was one of the main reasons bristol was not really considered to be RT safe (there were other reasons too but they should also have been removed in the later releases). The CPU footprint can be reduced further by selecting -lwf, or light weight filters, they should cut a half off again for a small change in quality. If you want to use more CPU you can too, documented in the ChangeLog. Regards, Nick. "we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”. Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer :-) ------------------------------ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.<https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969>