[linux-audio-user] Tao Synth

Garett Shulman shulmang at colorado.edu
Fri Feb 16 10:07:20 EST 2007


Ken Restivo wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:41:38PM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote:
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>> Ken Restivo wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:24PM +0100, Florent Berthaut wrote:
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>>>> Florent Berthaut a ?crit :
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>>>>> Hi everyone,
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>>>>> Has anyone managed to compile tao synth 
>>>>> (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/taosynth/) recently ?
>>>>> If so, what are the changes i have to make in the sources ?
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>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Flo
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>>>> Ok, my fault, i was trying with the 2000 version because i had only seen 
>>>> the old website  ...
>>>> The 2006 version compiles and works just great ;)
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>>> Hmm. No JACK or realtime support, or ALSA MIDI, AFAICT. 
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>>> Anyone working on that?
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>>> JACK client API looks pretty simple, but I have no idea if there are 
>>> realtime-incompatible evils lurking in this code which would make it 
>>> impossible to JACK-ify.
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>> Tao is quite awesome... but realtime... or even fast as molasses it is 
>> not. :)
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> Really? Even on a fast CPU?
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> Hmm... then another strategy might be to use it only to generate a range of notes, and then use Swami to generate soundfonts for playing via MIDI.
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Yeah... that should be a good approach. I've been intending to do that 
sort of thing with libinstpatch in an automated fashion to make 
multi-layer gig patches from Tao. Maybe when classes end in the spring :) .
> - -ken
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