Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.4.1
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 16:32:48 EET
On Thursday 20 February 2003 15.29, Paul Davis wrote:
> >On Wednesday 19 February 2003 17.33, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> >* midi thread will now try and use SCHED_FIFO. If you run
> >> > jackd with
> >>
> >> why?
> >
> >Probably to make MIDI control as deterministic as the audio
> >processing. (Not much point in running a synth with small buffers
> > and SCHED_FIFO otherwise.)
>
> but this is for JACK Rack, not a MIDI sequencer. we're talking
> about controlling things from a control surface. why does it need
> to be so "deterministic" when its already inherently sloppy? nobody
> suggests that the X server and the GUI thread should be SCHED_FIFO
> so that mouse-based control is "deterministic" ...
Well, if that's all there is to it (ie no input from external MIDI h/w
or something), I have to agree.
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