Re: [fluid-dev] Multiple fluidsynth instances or all-in-one?

[Josh Green]

Each FluidSynth audio driver is only one thread, and thus all synthesis
processing is done in a single thread.  There are separate threads for
MIDI input though.  FluidSynth isn't really doing anything special
currently to utilize SMP systems.  If you are running a couple separate
FluidSynth processes it may or may not be more efficient.  Not really
sure.  It would be nice to allow FluidSynth to at least be able to share
settings/instruments etc between instances.  This has been suggested
before, but so far no progress in that area.

Best regards,
        Josh

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 22:51 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
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> On an SMP system (Intel Core Duo), does fluidsynth spawn off child 
> threads/processes for each midi channel active?
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> Right now I have multiple fluidsynth instances, one for each MIDI instrument, 
> and I patch them using qjackctl. I suppose I could also have only one 
> fluidsynth instance, with all my soundfonts loaded, and use fluidsynth's 
> routing and different MIDI channels to send the various signals to the 
> correct instrument.
> 
> Which approach would make the most sense on an SMP machine?
> 
> - -ken
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