[linux-audio-user] My MIDI latency is crap

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:43 -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> So I sat down last night to do a little sequencing with my Roland
> RD-700SX.  Since Rosegarden was giving me fits, I jumped over to MusE,
> got everything setup, and started trying to play.  The latency was
> awful.  I'm curious what I'm doing wrong...here's a quick rundown on
> what I have going:
> 

The latency between what and what?  Playing the keyboard, using the seq
to play back a midi file...?  Please explain exactly what you're doing.

> Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper, using the default kernel (I wonder if this is it? 
> Does MIDI latency depend on having a preemptable kernel?)
> 
> Jack wasn't running, I was doing all of the MIDI connections via MusE.
> 
> Finally, I was connecting the RD directly to my computer via the USB
> port for my MIDI interface.  aconnect recognized it just fine.
> 

What's the "RD"?

Lee