Hi Carlo,
I'm tired of discussing this issue and I guess a lot of people prefer
that I stopped discussing it ;).
I found this one from 2015:
http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/MIDI-jitter-Was-outfitting-a-computer…
And this one from 2010:
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2010/07/0189.html
Note, I didn't read it again, so I don't know how useful or useless it
is.
I found this one where I was whining about another issue, but I claimed
that "Jack MIDI latency test is ok", much likely it should read "ALSA
MIDI latency test" ;). It looks like I already unbound an USB port
sharing an IRQ with the HDSP. On my new mobo I can't do this, but the
shared IRQ seems not to affect the HDSP at all.
I changed my hardware, my current setup looks like this:
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ amidi -l
Dir Device Name
IO hw:0,0 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1
IO hw:1,0 TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI
IO hw:4,0,0 Scarlett 18i20 USB MIDI 1
apart from this I switched from an around ten year old AMD machine to
an Intel machine, so now a perhaps better timer is available, let alone
that I can use a lower audio frame value when launching jackd, which
seemingly has impact on the midi-audio-sync-accuracy, too.
Actually the audible issue did arise, when I tried to record one
external MIDI instrument after the other, if all were recorded at the
same time, it was more or less ok.
I didn't use my new machine for critical MIDI recordings, maybe I will
do during the German North Rhine-Westphalia summer holidays from
2017/07/17 to 2017/08/29. I'm working in childcare, so I have holidays
myself at the moment.
Regards,
Ralf