Try GeneralUser GS FluidSynth version from this site <http://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php>. It is much smaller than FluidR3, so it should hopefully use less CPU. -~Chris
On 11/17/2012 04:25 AM, Jan Newmarch wrote: > Recently there was a thread about 1.1.5 on an RPi. I'm picking that up > for 1.1.6. I have a Model B RPi with 512M RAM. I have the Raspbian hard > float image installed rather than the Debian soft float (which behaves > worse). I have applied the security fixes suggested by Aere Greenway. > I'm running it with period set by -z 4096 as suggested by David > Henningsson. I'm observing CPU usage by running top in a separate > window: > > fluidsynth -a alsa -l -z 4096 /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 \ > youvemad.kar > > Some simple MIDI files play okay. Others hit CPU usage between 40-99%, > varying throughout the song. At 99% CPU the sound is very broken up, too > bad to be really playable. > > It has been suggested that smaller sound fonts will help. What smaller > sound fonts are there? > > I can do more experiments if desired. > > Jan
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