--- On Mon, 10/19/09, David Henningsson <launchpad....@epost.diwic.se> wrote:
> From: David Henningsson <launchpad....@epost.diwic.se> > Subject: Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, > over the weekend) > To: "jimmy" <wg20...@yahoo.com> > Cc: j...@resonance.org, fluid-dev@nongnu.org > Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 7:28 PM > jimmy wrote: > > > > --- On Mon, 10/19/09, j...@resonance.org > <j...@resonance.org> > wrote: > > First - thanks for helping out with the much needed > testing! > > > I tried again, same midi file at > > "http://mmacdonald.com/midi/XG/Conquistador 3K > MM.MID". Note that this is a fairly busy, quick > tempo/pace. > > Out of curiosity, you mentioned aplaymidi before. Do you > play the song via aplaymidi and alsa-seq drivers, or do you > supply the midi file to fluidsynth on the command line? > > > As I type this, I use the mouse to drag the scroll bar > in a GUI text editor, with the midi song playing in the > background, I definitely hear the jitters during the mouse > drag. Not surprising, just mention it here anyway. > > Are XRUNs reported from Jackd? In that case, it is probably > not FluidSynth's fault. Is jackd and fluidsynth running > under rtprio? > > > Unison.sf2 seems to give the least noise/jitters for > me. It is also the smaller soundfont compare to the > ones listed below. > > Interesting. I've heard that before, that smaller > soundfonts are less CPU intensive, my only theory is that > this has to do with the CPU cache, with more samples, > there'll be more cache misses. This seems a little bit > far-fetched though (not only for the CPU, ha ha). Would be > interesting to know if prefetch instructions could improve > the situation. > > // David > _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
