[LAU] OT: Interesting article on MIDI timing

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
> It's clocked at 3,400 times the speed, and is probably pushing over
> 10,000 times as many instructions.  Surely it can sequence a semiquaver
> roll without it sounding like turnips being tipped off a truck?

completely irrelevant if the CPU has masked interrupts or is stuck on
a kernel lock before moving on to handle the next MIDI note or decides
to schedule something other than your MIDI thread for one reason or
another.