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

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Hello Kevin, It is unfortunate that getting low latency audio response in Linux is still such a black art. Its nice to see PulseAudio trying to tackle the general case and provide relatively good latency, but in practice it still hasn't really panned out. I think it is better to solve t

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

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Not a problem. Glad you figured it out :) Josh Quoting Joan Quintana : Sorry, both you were right. $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a alsa -o synth.sample-rate=44100.000 audio.periods=2 audio.period-size=128 -l AI-APiano02trans.sf2 Parameter 'audio.periods=2' not a SoundFont or MIDI file or er

Re: [fluid-dev] two questions

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Quoting tizo : - It seems like aftertouch was not implemented in version 1.0.7, as it is in version 1.0.9. Sadly, is too sensitive for me, and I couldn't find a way to deactivate it. Can I do that? I wonder if a command line option or something should be added to turn off aftertouch. Or sh

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

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Quoting 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 e

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

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Quoting "S. Christian Collins" : Joan Quintana wrote: Another question is: If pianobooster is gonna be used by normal users... how to explain them all this staff? Of course, pianobooster needs low latency, and it will be necessary to use an rt kernel. I needed about six months to be con

Re: [fluid-dev] New debian/ubuntu package available for testing

2009-05-24 Thread josh
Quoting Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas : I lack some knowledge in the area of shared libraries. I notice that when running ldd on the fluidsynth executable, it comes up with a large list of dependencies, which aren't actually used in the fluidsynth application itself, but are instead dependencies of lib

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

2009-05-24 Thread Joan Quintana
Sorry, both you were right. $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a alsa -o synth.sample-rate=44100.000 audio.periods=2 audio.period-size=128 -l AI-APiano02trans.sf2 Parameter 'audio.periods=2' not a SoundFont or MIDI file or error occurred identifying it. Parameter 'audio.period-size=128' not a SoundFont

Re: [fluid-dev] two questions

2009-05-24 Thread David Henningsson
tizo skrev: > - It seems like aftertouch was not implemented in version 1.0.7, as it is > in version 1.0.9. Sadly, is too sensitive for me, and I couldn't find a way > to deactivate it. Can I do that? I think the following shell commands will do just that: router_begin cpress router_par1 0 127 0

Re: [fluid-dev] two questions

2009-05-24 Thread S. Christian Collins
tizo wrote: I have also tried channel coarse tunning, but adjusting that an octave down or up, it makes the sound really awful (I don't know why, I am not a soundfont expert). This is because course tune only changes the pitch of the sample, but does not adjust the sample split points. The end

Re: [fluid-dev] two questions

2009-05-24 Thread S. Christian Collins
Tizo, Regarding transposing a channel, have you tried Qmidiroute? I have used Qmidiroute when performing live to send different areas of the keyboard to different channels, and you can transpose not only notes, but controllers as well. You can also do sound layering this way. And... I can'

Re: [fluid-dev] rendering to file cuts off last note

2009-05-24 Thread Peter Bartjens
Hello all, Thanks David for the quick response. In the meantime I did some work that I hope will help in fixing the problem. First, I made this 4 measure masterpiece (hey, hey, don't laugh, until recently the pinnacle of my musical achievement was transposing the first few measures of a chil