> My immediate experience
> was that sfront was able to provide me with dramatically
> improved realtime response; very low latency, and greatly
> increased polyphony.
I should note here that Toby is describing his experience
with sfront under Linux -- and there are other folks on
saol-users who in fact use the real-time stuff (audio and
control in, audio out) under Linux on stage succesfully
(the saol.net folks).
However, on other platforms for sfront, its a different
story today -- no driver support exists for MacOS at all,
and for Windows the real-time drivers are experimental;
on those platforms, sfront works best today for off-line
work. Since my own computing platform is Linux at the
moment, in the short term, improvements in other drivers
are the work of contributors, although structural changes
in audio and control sfront APIs to support other platforms
better may be something I do personally soon (feedback is
welcome on what those changes should be, FYI ...). In the
longer term, once Mac OS X is shipping on Powerbooks, I
may be tempted to buy one to do sfront demos on the road,
and thus do the port myself ... but that looks like its a
good six months before Mac OS X would be shipping, at least.
Today, though, if you're running under Windows and want
SAOL real-time performance, you're best off looking at
some of the other decoders out there, such as:
which has limited SAOL support, and Robin Davies SFX:
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/sfx/
Other decoders on Eric's links page may also be ready
for real-time work, I haven't been keeping track lately:
http://sound.media.mit.edu/people/eds/mpeg4/links.html
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