Re: [fluid-dev] problems with fluidsynth 1.1.5 on a raspberry pi

[Simon Eigeldinger]

hi,

thanks for the quick response.
so nothing to fix via the command line options i guess.
or is there something i might able to try?

greetings,
simon

Am 12.10.2012 20:13, schrieb Element Green:
> Probably lacks an FPU, which means rather slow floating point emulation.
> The CPU just can't keep up in real-time. FluidSynth uses floating point
> math heavily.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Element Green
> On Oct 12, 2012 11:06 AM, "Simon Eigeldinger" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am new to fluidsynth and i tried it to run it on my raspberry pi
> > computer.
> > its a small ARM board with a 700 mhz processor and 256 mb ram.
> >
> > When i tried it it played the file for a few seconds and then it strated
> > to kind of grind or hum. sounded like a saw wave tone got quite low but
> > went up and down the scale.
> >
> > here's the output of the console:
> >
> > $ fluidsynth -a alsa /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_**GM.sf2 10.mid
> >
> > FluidSynth version 1.1.5
> > Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Peter Hanappe and others.
> > Distributed under the LGPL license.
> > SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.
> >
> > fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is
> > possible.
> >
> > Parameter '10.mid' not a SoundFont or MIDI file or error occurred
> > identifying it
> > .
> > fluidsynth: warning: Requested a period size of 64, got 256 instead
> > Type 'help' for help topics.
> >
> > fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
> > fluidsynth: warning: Failed to set thread to high priority
> > >
> >
> >
> > Anyone knows thats wrong?
> > I also tried timidity but the annoying thing with it is that you have to
> > create a channels configuration file first before you are able to use the
> > soundfont.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> > Greetings,
> > Simon
> >
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