| you can try increasing ksmps, and if you have soundfonts at lower sampling rates (32K, 22.05k), running
at lower srs.
Victor
On 19 Dec 2013, at 22:22, zappfinger wrote:
> I was very curious how the FluidSynth opcodes would behave on the RPi, so I
> did some tests.
> I used a simple csd and various sound fonts.
> 003.3mg GS Roland Sound Set 16 bit Bank.SF2 (3.5 Mb) played quite well.
>
> With buffer settings -B2048 -b1024 latency was none existent.
> I could play fast and used chords with 5 or more notes.
> Obviously, larger sound fonts (>10 Mb) had trouble playing with big chords.
>
> FluidR3 GM2-2.SF2 (148.3 Mb) was the largest (and very nice) sound font I
> used. BTW, all this via the normal audio out, so low quality sound. Playing
> only a few notes or 3 note chords sounded ok. Larger chords soon turned into
> distortion, because the Pi could not cope with it.
>
> Are there other csound settings besides the buffer sizes to tune and
> possibly improve this?
>
>
> Richard
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Dr Victor Lazzarini
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