--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Adrian Knoth <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Adrian Knoth <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related > to:] hard realtime performance synth > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 1:46 PM > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 06:50:28PM > +0100, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: > > > Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ( live > )... > > > > ...and I don't mean a one-finger melody, but a > mutli-polyphonic piano > > piece, eventually with sustain held down, which > resulted in about 20 > > to 40 simultaneusly processed voices. > > Yep, I do this since 2003. Though not with Linux, yet, but > Win32 on an > RME Multiface. > > Sampled pianos, strings, some synths. > > I started on AMD Athlon xp1600 (iirc) with 1GB RAM and I'm > now on AMD > athlon 2x2GHz laptop with 3GB RAM. > > What can I say? It works. The audience varies from 150 to > 4000 people, > and I trust my system, despite it's Windows. ;) I clearly > wouldn't even > enter the stage when I'd doubt system stability. > > This said, Linuxsampler was the most useful virtual > instrument I found, > but I'm really missing my Hypersonic2. This comes very > close to a > typical keyboard workstation with lots of _decent_ sounds > like Korg > Triton or Yamha Motif. > > I then bought a Korg microX as the primary sound engine for > my ardour > based studio setup. It's around 450 Euro, it delivers the > Triton sounds, > it's hardware and it's approximately the price one would > have to pay for > a good virtual instrument. It's the confession that HQ > virtual > instruments on Linux (besides LS) won't happen any soon. are you kidding ?? have you tried Pianoteq ? I use it at 1ms lat for RT playing together with Addictive Drums via dssi-vst. Not a single glitch. I use a dedicated PC, with a Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM and RNME HDSP + Multiface II sound system. J. > > > process 30 voices in less than 9 milliseconds ? > > You don't need 9ms, I use 12ms, and I would claim I'm not > lagging behind > the drummer. ;) > > > > -- > mail: [email protected] > http://adi.thur.de > PGP/GPG: key via keyserver > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
