Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
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Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
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?
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Re: Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
Moved to legacy discussion.
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Re: Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
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.
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Re: Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
I don't know but it will be clearly slower than virtualmidisynth on that machine, just compare.
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Re: Fluidsynth demanding on older cpu's?
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.