Re: [fluid-dev] fluid_player_add(synth, '-')

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-09-02 10:24, Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> fluidsynth.lua is now at 1.6:
>     http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/fluidsynth.html
> and
>     http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/fluadity.html
> now has a  fluadity -d  option, which starts it running
> as a daemon eg: from /etc/rc.local.  It's now my
>    export ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS=Fluidity
> and should get a good road-test.
>
> I noticed after I call new_fluid_synth and new_fluid_audio_driver
> then it starts eating about 7% of my CPU, even though nothing is
> being input or output, no midi_player is running, and no SoundFonts
> have even been loaded.  I suppose there's a reason for this...

Reverb and chorus engines are constantly running. And then there's all 
overhead of transferring samples, some of which might be reduced with a 
larger period size.

// David