Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-26 Thread david
On 11/26/19 4:45 PM, Ted Felix wrote: On 11/26/19 5:46 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I think it *is* also worth mentioning that different CPU 'monitoring' tools provide different results:   Absolutely.  Which is why I mentioned "top" specifically. I prefer htop. I do have a laptop with

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-26 Thread Ted Felix
On 11/26/19 5:46 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I think it *is* also worth mentioning that different CPU 'monitoring' tools provide different results: Absolutely. Which is why I mentioned "top" specifically. I do have a laptop with Intel's so-called 'hyperthreading' and was reading that

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-26 Thread David W. Jones
On November 25, 2019 9:09:22 PM HST, "D. Michael McIntyre" wrote: >On 11/26/19 12:07 AM, Ted Felix wrote: > >> easier to see.  This is how I was able to improve rg performance >> significantly. > >Just to jump in here randomly... Ted, you really impressed me with how > >much you did improve

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-26 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I think it *is* also worth mentioning that different CPU 'monitoring' tools provide different results: e.g. here I checked qjackctl's dsp load, top (and variants, atop, htop), and included xfce task manager and the difference especially what top and xfce task manager reported for cpu usage is

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-26 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:07:50 -0500 Ted Felix wrote: >On 11/22/19 6:39 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> Exactly what setup have you got there if you don't mind me asking? > > 1st gen Core i3-370M. I'm using "top" to measure CPU usage. > > I go with low spec hardware to make performance issues

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-25 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 11/26/19 12:07 AM, Ted Felix wrote: easier to see.  This is how I was able to improve rg performance significantly. Just to jump in here randomly... Ted, you really impressed me with how much you did improve performance, with so little downside it's kind of ridiculous. You, sir, are

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-25 Thread Ted Felix
On 11/22/19 6:39 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Exactly what setup have you got there if you don't mind me asking? 1st gen Core i3-370M. I'm using "top" to measure CPU usage. I go with low spec hardware to make performance issues like this easier to see. This is how I was able to improve rg

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-22 Thread Will Godfrey
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:59:42 -0500 Ted Felix wrote: >On 11/20/19 10:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> There was one thing that grabbed my attention. That was when you say Zyn >> uses a >> lot of CPU when idling. >> >> I very much doubt that. > > I'm looking right at it. I see an idling

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-22 Thread Demonic Sweaters
Just chiming in here, I never use zyn or yoshimi because of this. Both of them are total cpu hogs. Justin A.K.A Demonic Sweaters YouTube.com/demonicsweaters demonicsweaters.com anthillrecordings.bandcamp.com > On Nov 22, 2019, at 4:14 PM, Ted Felix wrote: > > On 11/20/19 10:56 AM, Will

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-22 Thread David W. Jones
On November 22, 2019 10:59:42 AM HST, Ted Felix wrote: >On 11/20/19 10:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> There was one thing that grabbed my attention. That was when you say >> Zyn uses a lot of CPU when idling. >> >> I very much doubt that. > > I'm looking right at it. I see an idling

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-22 Thread Ted Felix
On 11/20/19 10:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: There was one thing that grabbed my attention. That was when you say Zyn uses a lot of CPU when idling. I very much doubt that. I'm looking right at it. I see an idling fluidsynth using 1%, jackd (which is never idling) using 2%, and an idling

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-20 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:19:17 -0500 Ted Felix wrote: > Since you seem to be OK with building software, you will probably >find my MIDI Guide interesting. It covers almost everything and might >get you to a new and more specific place where the trouble may lie: > >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-19 Thread David W. Jones
On November 19, 2019 8:19:17 AM HST, Ted Felix wrote: >On 11/18/19 6:15 PM, Tim Burgess via Rosegarden-user wrote: >> If I start rosegarden, I can see messages go by and the Qsynth1 light > >> flash, but no audio. When I exit rosegarden, I get a blare of sound (as >> if all notes sent are

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden and qsynth

2019-11-19 Thread Ted Felix
On 11/18/19 6:15 PM, Tim Burgess via Rosegarden-user wrote: If I start rosegarden, I can see messages go by and the Qsynth1 light flash, but no audio. When I exit rosegarden, I get a blare of sound (as if all notes sent are played at once). Sounds like the events aren't actually being