Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.6 on a raspberry pi

2012-11-21 Thread Aere Greenway
Jan and David: If the "nightsin.kar" piece is "Nights in White Satin" (by The Moody Blues), the piece probably makes use of the pitch-bender extensively, in certain limited sections. Those sections may very well be the "bad spots". If you watch a dump of output from a MIDI interface, even a fa

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.6 on a raspberry pi

2012-11-21 Thread David Henningsson
On 11/21/2012 11:07 AM, Jan Newmarch wrote: Hi Some things are getting clearer... First off: it's only parts of nightsin.kar that distort badly - about 20 seconds worth, in different places. The rest plays fine. The bad bits are when CPU usage hits impossible values - "top" says 99.9% and "pids

Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.6 on a raspberry pi

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Newmarch
Hi Some things are getting clearer... First off: it's only parts of nightsin.kar that distort badly - about 20 seconds worth, in different places. The rest plays fine. The bad bits are when CPU usage hits impossible values - "top" says 99.9% and "pidstat" says anything upto 380%! It isn't a uni