Re: [LAU] Synths (software vs hardware, speed)

From: Dave Robillard <drobilla@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 18:08:57 EEST

On Wed, 2007-22-08 at 13:22 +0100, Simon Williams wrote:
> I'm now at the point where I can play midi files, and I have a midi
> keyboard connected and can play sounds to and from that.
> Timidity is rubbish, frankly, so I'm using fluidsynth, which works fine.
> However, for some reason I can't get qsynth to work.
>
> Qsynth1: Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No MIDI input will
> be available.
>
> No matter what settings I try, it always fails. The only useful message
> I ever got was for alsa_raw, when it said that the device didn't exist.
> For some reason I have /dev/snd/midiC1D0, but not /dev/snd/midiC0D0. So
> I temporarily symlinked them, but that didn't help- it wasn't
> complaining about a missing device any more, but it still couldn't
> create the midi driver and still wouldn't tell me why not.
>
> Also, both fluidsynth and timidity are too slow. Midi events are routed
> around instantly (tested with vkeybd and the keyboard I have plugged
> in), but there is a delay in playing anything sent to fluidsynth or
> timidity- about half a second or so.

Use a smaller (audio) buffer size.

-DR-

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