FFT Settings or Replacement

[emailnikola]

Hi everyone,

I'm having troubles getting better performance from FFT. Both CPU and GPU are not maxing and FFT seems to skip few of the beats on random. How can I tweak the FFT or how can I use some other FFT. There seem to be plenty new solutions out there. FFT was developed by C. F. Gauss around 1805. Yeah, mind blown, too.

AAFFT: https://github.com/KAdamek/AAFFT
SFFT: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT
FFTW: http://www.fftw.org
SFFT vs. FFTW: http://www.spiral.net/software/sfft.html

Please shed some light on this subject.

[drazkers]

Hi everyone,

I'm having troubles getting better performance from FFT. Both CPU and GPU are not maxing and FFT seems to skip few of the beats on random. How can I tweak the FFT or how can I use some other FFT. There seem to be plenty new solutions out there. FFT was developed by C. F. Gauss around 1805. Yeah, mind blown, too.

AAFFT: https://github.com/KAdamek/AAFFT
SFFT: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT
FFTW: http://www.fftw.org
SFFT vs. FFTW: http://www.spiral.net/software/sfft.html

Please shed some light on this subject.

What machine specs are you using?

[emailnikola]

I have Lenovo Y50-70 with i7 that goes to over 3 HGz on 8 threads. GPU is GTX 860M. HDD is SSD. Hardware is nor the issue or the subject.

[drazkers]

I have Lenovo Y50-70 with i7 that goes to over 3 HGz on 8 threads. GPU is GTX 860M. HDD is SSD. Hardware is nor the issue or the subject.

What audio interface are you using the get audio into resolume?

[emailnikola]

I'm plugging direct exit from mixer to my Audio IN (integrated sound card).

I'm trying to experiment... Even if I get a response like "Well, you should get a better sound card.", I'm not gonna get the answer I'm looking for. I'm interested to know if someone tried to use some other DFT or if someone managed to unlock the settings of the integrated FFT.

[drazkers]

I'm plugging direct exit from mixer to my Audio IN (integrated sound card).

I'm trying to experiment... Even if I get a response like "Well, you should get a better sound card.", I'm not gonna get the answer I'm looking for. I'm interested to know if someone tried to use some other DFT or if someone managed to unlock the settings of the integrated FFT.

The one thing with forums is that we are a resource for people in the future. You state your having skipping on FFT, the majority of people don’t. This questions are useful for people trouble shooting the issue.

It sounds more likely some tweaks to your sound card can fix the the root issue, not swapping out the whole FFT system.

With resolume being a compiled binary the ability to just swap out parts of the audio input engine isn’t a trivial thing.

I can’t help you with swapping out FFT, but I can help fix the problem that made you start thinking about that. Because really that’s the end result everyone is looking for.

[subpixel]

I made a Processing app in 2009 that I update on rare occasions to do audio analysis. It spits out 10 MIDI CC messages (at around 30fps) based on any of 30 frequency bins. There are various controls such as selecting which bin each output is driven by, changing the output ranges (including random selection), setting the MIDI device and channel, etc.

spxlAudioToMidi
http://subpixels.com/processing/spxlAudioToMidi/

-subpixel

[gpvillamil]

Have you tried ASIO4ALL driver?

http://www.asio4all.org

Once installed, it will appear as an additional input and output in Resolume. It should have better performance.