Re: [fluid-dev] Help about EWI behavior - Soundfonts generator

2015-05-06 Thread Louis B.
musician via MIDI CC ->Modulators-> Synthesis parameters. > We also must know that modulators (described in soundfont) are additive to > the value of the parameter set by the sound designer. > So if the musician put the CCx value to "0", the result is "no modulatio

Re: [fluid-dev] Help about EWI behavior

2015-05-03 Thread Louis B.
;usp=sharing The small gaps in the breath data are where I was tonguing at the start of some notes. I also play with a folk style and use quite a lot of ornamentation. The challenge is to if any one can get this to play well using fluidsynth. Thanks Louis On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Lou

Re: [fluid-dev] Help about EWI behavior

2015-05-03 Thread Louis B.
Hi, jcc, Here are my replies. Sound + midi recording to follow. jjc> Technically 'vibrato' is a pitch modulation and 'tremolo' is an amplitude modulation. What are you talking about ? I am talking about the way I play the flute and the sound produced when I don't play a steady note. jjc> 2.a)

Re: [fluid-dev] Help about EWI behavior

2015-05-03 Thread Louis B.
recording (with matching audio). If possible, MIDI file format 2 will be appeciated as well the kind of synthesizer used when recording audio. Thanks a lot for your contribution. jjc On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Louis B. wrote: > Ha Ha. Yes, I have just bought (rather foolishly) an

Re: [fluid-dev] Help about EWI behavior

2015-05-01 Thread Louis B.
Ha Ha. Yes, I have just bought (rather foolishly) an EWI, thinking that I could easily use it to make MIDI recordings instead of using the keyboard as the MIDI input. I am not so skilled on the keyboard. So I thought if I get a wind controller, I can close the lid on my piano keyboard and instead p

Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth latency on ARM devel board?

2014-01-07 Thread Louis B.
The thing that has most effect on low end processor is to halve the sample rate with the flag '-r22050'. see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ExampleCommandLines also see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/LowLatency Louis On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Element

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.6 on a raspberry pi

2012-11-20 Thread Louis B.
Try adding the flag -r22050 as this halves the CPU through put. See: "fluidsynth on NetBooks and low performance computers" on this page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ExampleCommandLines On Nov 20, 2012 9:57 PM, "David Henningsson" wrote: > On 11/20/2012 08:58 AM, Jan Newmarch

Re: [fluid-dev] FPE Exceptions (was Re: Problem in fluidsynth (Ubuntu 11.10) still in Ubuntu 12.04)

2012-05-28 Thread Louis B.
If you have not seen this before, there is a little trick I use for my old slow netbook -- halving the sample rate with the flag '-r22050'. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ExampleCommandLines On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > ** > Pedro, and all: > > It's

Re: [fluid-dev] Major degradation in sound quality & cpu usage going from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10

2011-11-26 Thread Louis B.
> Perhaps Canonical has decided to abandon support of people having older, slower machines. > Try halving the sample rate with the flag '-r22050' (this halves the CPU workload for some part of fluidsynth code) See: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ExampleCommandLinesfluidsynth on

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
change the way the piece sounds. On Oct 25, 2011 7:35 AM, "Andrew Suffield" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:33:23AM +0100, Louis B. wrote: > > Obviously that should read "as well as the sustain MIDI signal" as you > want > > both MIDI signals to operate

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
Obviously that should read "as well as the sustain MIDI signal" as you want both MIDI signals to operate at the same time. On Oct 25, 2011 7:00 AM, "Matt Giuca" wrote: > > It wouldn't be that explicit. You would do it by hooking a modulator >> to some CC input and using it to extend the volume de

Re: [fluid-dev] Sustain long fadeout a property of the synth or the font?

2011-10-24 Thread Louis B.
On Roland midi pianos they simulate the effect when the sustain pedal is down of the other undamped piano strings resonating in sympathy when a piano hammer strikes a single note? Is this something that fluidsynth can do? Or are we talking about something complete different? __

Re: [fluid-dev] performance issues on iphone

2011-05-31 Thread Louis B.
That should read on "under powered netbooks". ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] performance issues on iphone

2011-05-31 Thread Louis B.
Try reducing the playback sampling rate. There should be some info on the fs wiki about working on under powered networks. ___ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev

Re: [fluid-dev] FluidSynth services migrated

2010-05-27 Thread Louis B.
Great, I have updated the fluidsynth wikipedia entry to point to http://fluidsynth.sourceforge.net/ Welcome to fluidsynths new home! On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Elimar Green wrote: > Hello again FluidSynth developers and users. > > I think I have finally managed to move most services over t

Re: [fluid-dev] Website and other status

2010-05-09 Thread Louis B.
FluidSynth Wikipedia entry to point to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/ Louis On Sat, 2010-05-08 Louis B wrote: Thanks Elimar for everything you have done on FluidSynth, it is something that I use a lot. What is the new location going to be? I have just done a search on Google for

Re: [fluid-dev] Website and other status

2010-05-09 Thread Louis B.
Thanks Elimar for everything you have done on FluidSynth, it is something that I use a lot. What is the new location going to be? I have just done a search on Google for fluidsynth and the Wikipedia entry comes up third. If you let me know the new URL I will edit the Wikipedia page so that people

Re: [fluid-dev] audio processing stops on ubuntu karmic

2009-11-02 Thread Louis B.
I find halving the sample rate works a treat on NetBooks as this reduces the work load but it also has the side effect of doubling the latency. the -r 22050 only seems to work with the plughw:0 as the default alsa device does not accept the reduced sample rate. Below is the command line that I u

Re: [fluid-dev] defaulting to bank 0 and preset 0 on startup in fluid library

2009-10-28 Thread Louis B.
always hear a sound even if you don't send a program change first. Louis On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:04 PM, wrote: > Hello Louis, > > Quoting "Louis B." : > >> Hi All, >> >> I have another small change I would like to see in the next release  if >>

[fluid-dev] defaulting to bank 0 and preset 0 on startup in fluid library

2009-10-28 Thread Louis B.
Hi All, I have another small change I would like to see in the next release if possible. when commenting out the following line 51 from example.c no sound is produced /* Select bank 0 and preset 0 in the SoundFont we just loaded on channel 0 */ //fluid_synth_program_select(synth, 0, sfo

[fluid-dev] Change the char* in the API to const char*

2009-10-28 Thread Louis B.
Hi all, I have a change that I would like to see i the next release if possible. Change all the char* references to const char* in the public API. The fluid_synth_sfload API already has this change. But it is missing from for example the fluid_settings_setint API. When compiling MidiDeviceFluidS

[fluid-dev] getting started page added to the Wiki

2009-09-07 Thread Louis B.
Hi all, I have final got round to updating the wiki by adding a getting started page and an example command line and configuration page. I have moved the running "fluidsynth on NetBooks and low performance computers" information on to the example command line page as it did not fit very well on th

[fluid-dev] Re: What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency? (Louis B.)

2009-05-25 Thread Louis B.
at 7:10 PM,   wrote: > Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas : >> >> On Monday, May 25, 2009, j...@resonance.org wrote: >>> >>> Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas : >>> > On Saturday, May 23, 2009, Louis B. wrote: >>> >> Thanks for the info. I hav

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency? (Louis B.)

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
7;-r22050'. I have just retested it and halving the sample rate helps more than removing the Reverb and Chorus with the under-run. I am running on an eeePC 901 + EEEBUNTU On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Saturday, May 23, 2009, Louis B. wrote: >>

Re: [fluid-dev] Re: What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency? (Louis B.)

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
PianoBooster and fluidsynth together. I think there is still a very slight latency delay though. The desktop volume controls now don't work. but hey I can't have everything . On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:11 PM, jimmy <> wrote: > > >> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:50:49 +0100 >> F

Re: [fluid-dev] What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency?

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
synth.resonance.org/trac/wiki/LowLatency > > Cheers. > > Josh > > > Quoting "Louis B." : >> >> Hi All, >> >> Wow thank you all very much, I have been struggling with this problem >> for years now trying to get low latency synth on linux. Poring over &

Re: [fluid-dev] What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency?

2009-05-21 Thread Louis B.
The below email was sent just to me but I would like to share it with the list. That is a really good idea, but a better idea might be to have a "startfluid" script that is provided either by the distribution or is part of the fluid synth team that works like the startx script. ie it starts up fli

Re: [fluid-dev] What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency?

2009-05-21 Thread Louis B.
eciate all your hard work and I can fully recommend it to others. Thanks L o u i s PianoBooster is a MIDI file player that teaches you how to play the piano. see: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:03 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > Louis B. skrev: >>

[fluid-dev] What is the best way start fluidsynth with zero/low latency?

2009-05-20 Thread Louis B.
Hi all, I am the developer of Piano Booster and I have written some instructions on how to start fluidsynth see this link. http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/faq.html#how-do-i-hear-the-sound-on-linux-ubuntu However I cannot get fluidsynth to run with zero/low latency. I estimated the latency d