Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?

[invictius]

Have been using synths that require an application installation, which are unreliable in my experience so I tried this. The wiki says it's cpu-demanding but how much so? Too much for one of the later single core p4's?

[Rachael]

Moved to legacy discussion.

[Graf Zahl]

Back in the day it got heavily criticized for being a CPU hog, but I cannot seem to find any numbers. It got added long after multi-core CPUs became commonplace, though.

[drfrag]

I don't know but it will be clearly slower than virtualmidisynth on that machine, just compare.

[Gez]

Randi compared it to the other MIDI synth options that existed back then (like TiMidity) and it was sensibly slower on the single-core laptop it was tested on.