12 May
2007
12 May
'07
2:29 a.m.
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:48:32AM -0400, Rob wrote:
10 years ago I was using a program called Vaz that
emulated a
3-oscillator analog synth with portamento and ring mod and other
nifty stuff, and ran without a hiccup on my 100MHz 486 box
running Win95. I know Zyn (like other modern softsynths) is
capable of doing a lot more, but shouldn't it be able to do a
monophonic two-oscillator synth on a P3 of any speed without
hiccupping and without needing to install unofficial kernel
patches and whatnot?
Pure Data has always performed well for me on lower end hardware and
i've never run anything but Debian pre-compiled kernels with no pre-empt
stuff. Of course, it depends what you're doing, but definately for a
couple of oscillators doing simple subtractive/additive synthesis it
works beautifully on slower machines. Not sure about 100MHz though!
Started using it on a 500MHz machine, so that is definately ok.
Chris.
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