Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] MacOSX note release problem solved

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

be...@ga... wrote:
> hi Stephane,
> ah so basically the PPC asm code was wrong ?
> 
> Regarding the no free voice, do you get them only at the
> end of the song  ? (afaik at the end it peaks to over 128voice).
> Try to increase max streams and max voices to 256 and rerun the chopin midi.
> 
> please watch CPU load (using top or whatever) and report peaks here.
> I'm very curious.
> On an athlon 2000 I get peaks of about 50-60% CPU.
> 

Benno,
    Will we have any imposed limitations on voice counts? Or will the 
only limitation be the capability of the hardware? How will we assess 
what number of voices a given machine can handle?

    I typically run 8-10 MIDI channels. The piano channel easily uses 
40, but can peak at 80-100. (Divide by two in LS from GST???) The other 
channels are more modest using between 10-20 voices. Still that's 100 + 
9*20=280 voices. Of course I can never get this from GSt because of 
imposed limitations so I have to record audio in multiple passes.

    OK, so this only goes to ask why is max voices set so low during 
development? Wouldn't we be better to set it very high in development 
and then lower it later when the code goes 1.0?

- Mark