[LAU] oh yoshimi, one more time

[david]

Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> 2010/1/29 Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org>:
>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:16:03 +0100
>> Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if this is known:
>>> Yoshimi 054 pre2 and pre4 both disconnect from jack, when pressing
>>> many keys (~10) at the same time on my midi keyboard.
>>> This does not happen with yoshimi 038
>>>
>>>
>> Cant repeat that here. Are you using jack-midi or alsa-midi? I'm using
>> alsa-midi.
>> I can stick both arms down flat across the keyboard without it
>> disconnecting - get rather a lot of xruns though!
> 
> I've connected the keyboard through jack-midi to yoshimi.
> I think jackd kicks yoshi off, because it consumes too much time
> in the rt-process then, although this doesn't really explain why it doesn't
> happen with 038 that fast.
> It just saw it with 038 too. Yoshi stopped for a moment,
> but did not get disconnected from jackd, instead jackd reported some xruns.
> I'm playing with a latency of 8ms, btw., at a rate of 48000.
> 
> A question pops up:
> Which would be the most appropriate behavior,
> when running out of time in the process thread ?
> 
> Stop processing voices ?
> Process them, allowing to xrun ? No, I think.
> Process them, but disconnect from jack ? No, I think.
> Any other options ?

Does using alsa-midi give you the same problem?

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