27 Feb
2009
27 Feb
'09
11:02 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:20 PM, tizo <tizone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok. As I said in another email, I have to make more serious tests with
both midi keyboards, but I think that I could play right with 64 or
128 frames (with some xruns).
Anyway, I am thinking in buy a new desktop PC, and use it with my old
Sound Blaster Live. I guess that I could do much more things with that
configuration, not just play. How about the performance of that card?.
Hi there,
Sorry about my previous mail. I was just starting to write a draft
about the topics I want to ask, and I accidentally push the send
button.
Well, my goal is to play two midi keyboards, sending the events
through jackd, to qsynth. My computer is a Laptop HP 550, with HDA
Intel sound card, 3 GB of memory, and a Core 2 DUO CPU of 1.40 GHz. My
OS is UbuntuStudio 8.04, with kernel 2.6.24-23-rt.
First of all, I cannot run jackd without xruns, if I configure it with
32 frames per period, or less. I am running it as root, with realtime,
and a priority of 70. As soon as I run it, it starts to count xruns,
and I am only executing jackd.
32 frames per interrupt is VERY ambitious with an Intel HDA chipset. Its not
impossible but every single part of your system has to be "just right" for
this to work. I would start with a less ambitious goal first, and get some
experience with the setup before trying to get all the way to this latency
level.
moving to USB will likely make things worse. latencies like this are best
accomplished with good, prosumer level PCI audio interfaces.
--p