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

2009-05-23 Thread jimmy
You are right Pedro, my bad. I remembered that wrong. I got that mixed up with jackd and qjackctl combo. Jimmy --- On Sat, 5/23/09, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > From: Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas > Subject: Re: [fluid-dev] Re: What is the best way start fluidsynth with > zero/low latency?

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

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
I have update the wiki to read First you need to reduce the CPU usage which helps reduce the chances of data under-run which causes the audio cut out. This can be done by turning off the Reverb and Chorus with the flags '-C0 -R0' and also by halving the sample rate with the flag '-r22050'. I hav

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

2009-05-23 Thread Jim Henry
The Miditzer Style 216 virtual theatre pipe organ bundles FluidSynth in its standard install. It has been downloaded over 14,000 times at Download.com. Some users use it for a MIDI player but a lot use it for real time performance. We got a lot of questions about how to lower latency. That does

[fluid-dev] two questions

2009-05-23 Thread tizo
Hi all, I am using fluidsynth for live performance. I have two keyboards (midi controllers) connected to my laptop, and using fludsynth for the synthesis. My OS is UbuntuStudio 8.04.2. The version of fluidsynth that came with that OS is 1.0.7 with libfluidsynth.so.1.1.1. As I wanted to set the pi

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

2009-05-23 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Saturday, May 23, 2009, Louis B. wrote: > Thanks for the info. I have just update the wiki with information on > how to run fluid on a netbook. see > http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/wiki/LowLatency. Please correct > it if it is wrong or you want to add anything else. "Also halving the samp

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

2009-05-23 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Saturday, May 23, 2009, jimmy wrote: > I still suggest they use qsynth to start fluidsynth. Do mention that if > they have a problem with qsynth, they can try to start fluidsynth > manually. Once they use qsynth to start fluidsynth, they can use: > >ps -ef | grep fluidsynth > > to get the

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

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
Thanks for the info. I have just update the wiki with information on how to run fluid on a netbook. see http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/wiki/LowLatency. Please correct it if it is wrong or you want to add anything else. It actually works very well running on my NetBook, running both PianoBoos

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

2009-05-23 Thread jimmy
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:50:49 +0100 > From: "Louis B." > > The point I was trying to make was that fluidsynth can be > rather > difficult for non techie users to get running correctly > especially > with low latency. I still suggest they use qsynth to start fluidsynth. Do mention that if

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

2009-05-23 Thread Louis B.
Hello All, Thanks for all your replies, Thanks for adding the Low Latency page on the wiki page. I will add some information for NetBook users which is perfect to put on top of a piano. I am sorry I put my point about QSnyth badly. I was just reflecting on the fact that unfortunatly _very_ few us