On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:01 PM, gene heskett <gheskett(a)wdtv.com> wrote: I don't know what could be causing the issue. You need to see if the same problems happen when the hardware synth is not being used. If no lockups occur when Rosegarden plays back to Fluidsynth or another synth, then see if you get the same lockup when another MIDI sequencer sends MIDI to you hardware synth. If so, then the problem is your audio hardware. Is the hardware a PCI card or built-in on the motherboard? -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world."     -- Jelaleddin Rumi

On Friday, December 16, 2011 09:10:48 PM Bob van der Poel did opine: wrote: wrote: PCI Potentially at the cost of some latency, plus I understand that USB can re- order packet sequences. As long as they get there, I don't imagine that as being a huge problem though, as long as the note off doesn't get there before the corresponding note on. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Anton Chekhov

On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:42:57 AM david did opine: So we majorly miss-match only in that I'm using the GM synth on the Audigy2 Value card, where your output is a usb-midi rig of some sort, driving the Yamaha. To my troubleshooting mind, that points strongly toward an unserviced PCI IRQ. I'll see if I can get something rigged to reroute it through fluidsynth. The one test I made using timidity, it worked but the voices didn't impress me all that much, and it was using about 40% of all 4 cores. A seriel port using the 6551, that is very easy to do because that chip is severely drain bamaged in how it does hardware flow controls. OTOH, it only freezes that comm channel most of the time, not the whole machine. Wouldn't spdif be a PCM output, after whatever synth was used? Every distro it seems, emasculates it somehow. My first experience using timidity was 8 or 9 years ago, and at that time it included an on-screen keyboard image that showed the key motions as if it was a player piano, and a mouse click and hold on a key actually played that note from whatever GM instrument it was assigned to be. I haven't seen that 'plugin' in years. To do that on a 400 mhz single core machine was to me quite impressive, but that is what I made my first linux install on, RH5.0 in early 1998. That has been my experience also. No pulse on pclos. One of the reasons I like it. :) Thanks David. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.

On Saturday, December 17, 2011 04:59:02 AM Folderol did opine: Not impossible, its been several months since I last booted into memtest, which found nothing in about 7 full passes. I used to drool over the 2496, but then with my musical talents having been tested & found wanting some, (the school band needed a double b-flat player 54 years ago, so guess who got volunteered, besides, the double b-flat and I sing in the same key) so I settled on this Audigy2 Value, which considering its cost of about 70 bucks at the time, is an amazingly capable card, 24 bit it claims & unlike the 16 bit soundblaster, is a lot harder to run out of headroom with. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports.