Re: [iiwusynth-devel] What I'm planning to do with iiwusynth

[Peter Hanappe]

Anthony Green wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 01:28, Peter Hanappe wrote:
>
> > However, I had the same question as Josh: why several synths?
> > I don't mean this in a negative sense. I'm just curious to know what
> > kind of setup you have in mind that needs many synths.
> > Do you have anything running, yet?
>
>
> Are there any drawbacks to multiple synths?
>
> I'm using iiwusynth as a plugin synth, with my own portaudio and
> portmidi drivers.  I'm creating one synth instance per instrument, which
> seemed to be the simplest approach for me.  When my audio driver asks
> for data, I just iterate through all my instruments (some iiwusynths,
> and some not) to mix all the data together.  It's simple, and works
> well.  I think that sharing one synth instance might complicate the
> code.  Are there any advantages?

Hi Anthony,

You surely can do it that way. The reasons I can think of right why not
to do it would be that you use more memory than necessary.
The performance might degrade also when you consider the caching
issues, but I have no clue how important that would be.

If you considered using the synth that way, I suppose that means the
current program/preset selection is not very clear.

Best,
P

> AG