[LAU] Synths (software vs hardware, speed)

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Aug 23 06:10:08 EDT 2007


Simon Williams wrote:

> Also, both fluidsynth and timidity are too slow. Midi events are routed 
> around instantly (tested with vkeybd and the keyboard I have plugged 
> in), but there is a delay in playing anything sent to fluidsynth or 
> timidity- about half a second or so.

I use fluidsynth with my Intel-based laptop (no hardware synth at all) 
and don't have any such playing delay. Of course, I'm not running 
Timidity at the same time - perhaps that's the problem?

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