Re: [LAD] No nagging, a serious question

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 09:52:11PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote:

> If you are working in a world where you know the available hardware in
> detail LOTS of things become easy, for example I can time stamp an
> incoming MIDI byte with the sample number of reported as current
> position by the sound card (There is only one), instant way to get
> effectively zero latency jitter.
> This doesn't work nearly so well when there is more then one sound card,
> the MIDI UART has effectively a fixed fifo (USB midi), and there is an
> SMM interrupt that cannot be masked.

Well, at least those sound cards that provide both audio and midi
*could* do this - timestamp incoming midi and provide that info
in some way, and requiring similar time stamps for outgoing midi.

Ciao,

-- 
Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais
nonchalant d’elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait.
(Michel de Montaigne)
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