[LAU] midi triggering delay

[andy baxter]

andy baxter wrote:
> andy baxter wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get my usb midi keyboard (an edirol PCR 800) working with 
>> my good laptop (a 1400 MHz core 2 thinkpad X61s). I have jackd running 
>> with 8 msec latency and no xruns using an onboard intel HDA sound card. 
>> When I hook up qsynth (fluidsynth) to the keyboard's alsa midi output, 
>> the notes are triggered with a slight (<0.1s?), and variable time delay. 
>> Sometimes the note plays immediately on pressing the key; sometimes 
>> there is a noticeable delay. This does not happen when I use the same 
>> setup on my old laptop (a 1400 Mhz single core dell).
>>   
>>     
>
> I've tried kernel 2.6.24.7-rt27, and this is no better with the midi 
> timing than any of the others (but has a problem with my intel HDA / 
> Analog devices onboard sound card). Thinking of trying just copying the 
> kernel and modules from my old laptop (which is running ubuntu hardy I 
> think) to see if that cures it.
>   
Have tried this too - no luck. :-/

(The kernel was ubuntu 8.04, vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-rt)

andy