Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html#downloads installed and > > > enabled, and I have yet to see an ALSA MIDI player that doesn't eat notes > > > when playing using EMU10K synth. > > This is because it is using softsynth. This is more processor intensive. You are mixing something up here, I think. We are NOT talking about the SoftSynth that MusE uses, but about general playback of MIDI files through the Emu10k1's built-in "MIDI synth". That one is played by loading a soundfont into the board (ok, nowaday this is not on the soundcard anymore, but a part of motherboard RAM) and then just triggering notes which the Emu10k1 synth plays by itself without any CPU work. You were talking about the "iiwu" softsynth which works through the standard PCM device, which is something different. > > Hmm..well, I once noticed dropped notes with my Emu10k1-based > > Soundblaster PCI512 as well (most obvious when using pmidi, but it also > > happened with MusE). I had made some attempts to find out where exactly > > this note-dropping would happen, but I've never gotten very far. > > Not only must you have the low latency patch but you must set it to have real > time priority. > > invoke muse with: > muse -RP midifile.mid > > If it gives you any errors saying unable to set real time priority than that > is your problem. I have been using MusE like that for quite a while, but I am sure my problems are not due to bad latency. I was able to create situations where NO notes were played anymore by the Emu10k1 synth though MusE was pumping out MIDI NoteOn events just nicely. > I have an overclocked celeron 533. I onlt hear the slightest crackle now and > then. Over all it is fairly clean. It's true for me too that playing notes through the iiwu softsynth works better right now than playing them through the Emu10k1 synth - which is not astounding too much, as the standard PCM playback has been stable for a long time in ALSA. Frank _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
