23 Feb
2016
23 Feb
'16
10:32 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:14:00 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:16:32PM -0600, Chris Caudle
wrote:
However one must make the distinction between an inactive voice and a
non-sounding one. In the latter case processes will still be running to check if
there are any notes to deal with, and any in-line effects will be fully
operational - reverb being one of the heavyweights.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Even staying silent is not a zero cost operation.
But very close. All the process function has to do is to
write zeros to the output buffer. That can be done very
fast. If having to do this is a problem, then actually
generating some sound would be a much bigger one. Which
means that things would fail anyway.
It is of course up to the synth to be aware of inactive
voices and reduce its own processing effort for those.
Maybe some don't do that.
Ciao,