Re: Bernie Warp 4 Comments

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat (GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH) wrote:
: In <5ju4ar$bio@dove.qut.edu.au> yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au writes:

: > 	How about speeding up the Ensoniq emulation a bit ? It's better 
: > then v1.0b3, but still lags trying to convert the signals and you can tell 
: > it is not smooth. Try running bee.seq in SynthLab "Flight of the Bumble 
: > Bee", that will be a challenge.

: Sound is such an overkill. This "Bee" song is very fast, and since we increased
: the sound buffer, Bernie is now adding a little bit more quantization than
: before. The bees may sound a little bit drunk.
: The main reason, though, is that SynthLab is producing such an awful lot of
: interrupts that on anything below 100Mhz the emulated GS can hardly cathc up.
: We have therefore added IRQ buffering so the timeline is ok more or less, but
: still you will possibly encounter slightly varying playback speed.

Out of curiosity, did you rewrite the Ensoniq emulator in PPC assembly
language yet, as you said you would? Or is it still written in C? (Or,
would it be so hard as to be nearly impossible? I would like to see
Soundsmith songs play fast enough so as to be more recognizable on my PPC
604e at 180 MHz)

Stavros



: cu,
: henrik