USB is by far the most convenient way to get Midi connectivity on a
modern Linux PC.
>>>> MIDI connector is DEFINITLY the best way to use MIDI!!!
Now, it looks like USB recording interfaces are all we have, so we don't
have a choice. That ain't good at all.
>>>> iS IT A POSSIBILITY THAT ALL OF US aLWAYS HAVE A CHOICE
: NOT BUY WHAT WE DON'T WANT????
> The computer side: Use an Intel CPU. The person setting it up should
> be willing to find out which of the USB ports on the computer should
> be used for this (have their own irq) and which usb ports should
> therefore never be used for anything else (often two usb ports are on
> an internal hub).
>>>> Sorry for all these capital letters before, you must use RTIRQ script
to achieve this behaviour of IRQ (important point)
That may or may not be necessary on recent kernels. I'm running a
regular Linus kernel with full pre-emption turned on, and I seldom get
an xrun. I'd only go for an RT kernel if your system isn't behaving
without it.
>>>> As said by Brent, RT kernel is not needed anymore, RTIRQ script
works with regular ones..
--
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+ Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
>>>>> Some of us have heard about the 100th monkey, some of us
SEARCH him!!! PEACE