Re: [LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 07:52 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: No, my claim is hat older versions of Jack2 have issues. I can't test Jack1 regarding to another issue. Jack2 from svn did solve this MIDI issue for me. First of all something about my work flow: MIDI recordings done by Qtractor, needs to be recorded to Ardour2 audio tracks. Because my old equipment only has got 2 analog stereo IOs, I needed to record one instrument after the other. I couldn't record all instruments at the same time. So even for the rhythm section I needed to record the Kick, the Snare (*lol* yes, a snare), the HiHat, Bass etc. one after the other, hence jitter is much more critical than if you would record all instruments at the same time. I didn't use Jack1, regarding to issues, on my machine Jack1 still disconnect clients. Current Jack2 version using ALSA hw MIDI out cause to much jitter for this work flow. IIRC around more than 1ms for the PCI cards. USB MIDI is for SysEx dump only and disconnected when making music. When using Jack2 from svn I run sudo chgrp audio /dev/hpet sudo chmod g+rw /dev/hpet sudo modprobe snd-hrtimer andenable his timer for Qtractor, resp. ALSA seq. I run jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256 a2jmidi_bridge The hpet thingy still is a little bit trick on my machine, if I run jack with hpet, there aren't enough devices available. This -Xalsarawmidi cause 0ms jitter. Hopefully a lot of things will become better now. The new RME card is using PCI express, I dunno it this would be better for hw MIDI out. After mounting my new card I can try Jack1 too! -- Ralf