With my pentium II 400 I can reach a polyphony of 200 oscilis with
envelopes in realtime using DirectCsound at sr=44100 (more than 300 when
using oscil opcode). Maybe Linux version is slower in realtime tasks? (I
never tested it).

Gabriel

Thomas Huber wrote:

> So do I ! Together with a MIDI fader box (Kawai K5000) I have a very
> cool virtual analog synth (that is capable of even more than just analog).
> It works fine on a PentiumII/350 (linux). With 44kHz stereo, the polyphony
> is not very big (ca 1-3).. so I use 22kHz mono instead, then save my work
> as MIDI file and render it offline using full 44kHz stereo. This is of
> course not suitable for a live show, but if you don't need high polyphony,
> it should be ok with 44kHz/stereo.

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Gabriel Maldonado

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