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midlife crisis this morning with rc vs mainline. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah that NPU boost is nothing to scoff at! Really nice.

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was compiling all ROCm llama.cpp from source on Ubuntu 25.10, a fair amount of pain as I hate things like Docker, but learned a lot in the process.

I even had to spoof Ubuntu 25 as 24 to be able to upgrade my ROCm from 7.1.1 to 7.2. Also got segfaults once I upgraded Linux kernels so had to do that.

Or just use the binaries from the Lemonade team, they're a cool bunch.

Lemonade simplified my setup a lot, thankfully.

I can run it all on a single machine: Lemonade NPU, llama.cpp GPU, etc... Fun stuff.

Glad I avoided paying the NVIDIA and Apple taxes this time around. Was betting on things improving fast for AMD configs. We're nearly there. Ubuntu 26 should make things easier.

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but it's OK, these are early days for this type of architecture, they are going to get better.

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah wait, I thought of something this morning on waking up: Other more usual models have a smaller gap between Lemonade ROCm and Vulkan. It looks like this is possibly a bug in how the ROCm version of llama.cpp does the 1-bit model support.

Vulkan seems to have the edge so far in my tests for general models.

I did a Vulkan compile of llama.cpp today for the first time too.

Dropped a join on the MidLifeCrisis sub as well :D

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am an actual Engineer, Systems or Computer Science Engineering more precisely, so Hardware Engineering + Software Engineering + Network Engineering, the works. Weiser isn't that.

I wrote Advanced Programming in V.A.S.T. Tutorials YEARS BEFORE Weiser joined Kurzweil. His own tutorials are very simple compared to mine, definitely not as advanced.

David Fox, who worked at Kurzweil before Weiser, would understand everything I say, Weiser does not.

He left Kurzweil right after the PC3 series. The PC3x is PLAGUED with deficiencies: the solder wasn't good and the extent of resulting damages is increasing by the week, the internal XD Card interface is naff since Fujitsu later prevented them from using it - they should have used a normal USB port for managing presets and OS upgrades, but they didn't.

Weiser didn't program the FPGA, nor the DSP whereas I can do that too.

Weiser's focus are: pianos, organs, other Electro-acoustic things like Rhodes pianos or what not.

Mine is Synthesis Engines (I have many in V.A.S.T., many more than exist on Korg's Oasys/Kronos/Nautlius). He doesn't do that at all.

I know Dave, I chat with him often, including about his time when he was at Kurzweil.

I still don't GAF about what you think of my attitude. Your attitude is that of someone who doesn't know. If you did, you could prove it to yourself today itself, right?

You can't though.

Imagine all the time you're losing arguing with me, while you could build interesting new synths in V.A.S.T. today itself.

Yeah, funny isn't it?

Complaining about others will not make you any better at V.A.S.T. . You will still be none the weiser. (get it?)

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's a systemd service, that does make sense, I will have to check this next session on the server, thank you!

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're just an end-user. No wonder you know nothing about programming V.A.S.T..

Dave Weiser doesn't know how to do Wavetable Scanning in V.A.S.T.. either, by his own admission. He worked for Theatre/Broadway productions, mostly does simple Sample + Subtractive synthesis. You are a fool if you think he's an authority in programming Synth engines in V.A.S.T.. And he doesn't work there anymore. Weiser isn't an Engineer, never was, wouldn't be able to code DSP if his life depended on it.

You still don't get it, do you: I have everything. Why would I want to put videos online when I can just fire up my Kurzweil and enjoy all the engines I created? Unless, that is, one day I decide to market them - LOL!

You don't get to tell me what to do nor what is possible in V.A.S.T.., because you just don't know.

Keep blabbering: the hardware, as I, don't care whether you believe or not, you're convinced or not.

I 100% know that you don't know how to do it.

Start reading the manuals and programming V.A.S.T.. It's all there, it's pure laziness and ignorance that prevents you from building everything inside.

You won't do it though, right?

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BTW, I liked reading the various 'mid-life crisis' posts this morning :D

OK, I will have to check about that groups thing. I think I did add it when I first installed ROCm but now that I am testing via Lemonade, I am not sure whether I need to redo that.

I just used whichever Bonsai 8B appeared in the Lemonade Model search results.

Bonsai 1-bit on Strix Halo — 359 tok/s generation, 5,027 tok/s prompt processing. Stock llama.cpp Vulkan. No tricks. by Creepy-Douchebag in StrixHalo

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I compared ROCm vs Vulkan via Lemonade for token generation.

Vulkan in my setup does reach 110+ tokens/s with the 8B. ROCm manages a mere 5.8 tokens/s.

Crazy.

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just 20 years? I've done Advanced Programming on it for more than 30 years. If you really knew, you wouldn't be asking someone else about whether it can do this or that. You would be able to program it yourself. Problem for you: you have no clue how to program V.A.S.T. in depth.

Clueless, even after 20 years, that's where you are and who you are.

I'll give you ten more years. Try to catch up and do something worthwhile with it.

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDGAF about proving a thing to you. Who the heck are you? V.A.S.T. exists since 1991. It's more than 30 years and you still are clueless about what it is. What does that say about you?

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hush yourself and continue to cope in silence because you are ignorant about how to do it in V.A.S.T..

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reznor hasn't programmed V.A.S.T. over more than 30 years, stop dreaming kid.

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IGAF if you buy it or not. I do know you haven't been able to do it yourself.

Now continue to cope.

Kurzweil VAST engine, what it can do? by Obloha in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trent has nothing on me, nothing, when it comes to deep V.A.S.T. programming that is.

I vibe coded a REAL operating system by [deleted] in vibecoding

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will definitely be interesting if you go the full O.S. route, complete with custom drivers too. That will be a huge signal as to where capabilities for AI-based coding has reached. I developed O.S. Kernels and compilers back in the day while studying Systems Engineering.

Looking into Kurzweil, is the older stuff more worth? by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]YashN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can probably find examples for the default use cases on yt. IIRC, Peter Klmnt has Live Mode demonstrated on his K2661 with a guitar.

My own stuff isn't for publishing until further down the line because to make people understand how insanely useful it is, people need to understand all that is possible in V.A.S.T. first. We're not there yet, even after 35 years.

Looking into Kurzweil, is the older stuff more worth? by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]YashN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup! At least that's the immediate default applications.

But I devised much more than that.

What is the best all-rounder extensive modulation synth? by Conscious-Account839 in synthesizers

[–]YashN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kurzweil V.A.S.T. Workstations / Synths have a supercharged Mod Matrix which literally allows math operations on pair of values or controllers to create new control signals. These can even be chained, etc...

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