On Thursday, February 4, 2010, 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. > > > I just realized, that I've never been able to do that. Neither almost. > Frustration. > But on my digital piano, I can to it. > That thing is some years old and definitely doesn't have 2 x 2 GHz > processors available.
A musical instrument is something designed and built for playing music. You can certainly produce sounds with a computer, but a general purpose computer is best suited for computing... anything. > Anyway. > The answer so far has been: That system is more dedicated, thus it > can, while my PC cannot. > > The conclusion: > I'm working with a wrong system ! - It doesn't allow me to work the > way I intend. > > Damn. What did I buy this system for ? I don't need those 2 x 2GHz for > word processing - right ?? > > > This makes me wonder: > > Which one is the system for my requirements ? > Which one is able to make some softsynths / samplers > process 30 voices in less than 9 milliseconds ? > > > Could my system be extended or modified in order to suit ? > > How then ? > > We have dedicated hardware for graphics, why not for audio ? Exactly. Better start with a good audio interface. You should not expect to convert a laptop with a cheap integrated Intel HDA sound interface into a good musical instrument. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
