Am Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:34:40 +0200
schrieb thijs van severen <[email protected]>: 


> would you be interested in writing down what you have created ?  a bit like
> the description i made of my live setup (see
> http://hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/29)

I'll try to get around to do that. Also, I'll probably test the setup on a 
little school gig tomorrow. But what I again observed during playing 
yesterday... while you can play, also with others, there is some noticeable 
latency when you look for it. Well, a subtly strange feeling when concentrating 
on it. When not bothering and just playing, it's fine.

So, my Roland drum brain is a bit quicker as the current combo of MIDI/USB 
Trigger pad and Hydrogen on the PC. Question is if the main source of latency 
is the trigger pad (unlikely) the MIDI/USB connection or the Linux 
driver/kernel side (quite possible) or hydrogen ... and that is a good point, 
IMHO. Hydrogen is not designed for quick live play, is it? I mean, it's great 
how it works at all, but I imagine that there can be room for improvement for 
responsiveness.
Or ... or it could be the added delay of the MIDI filter, but seriously doubt 
that. The program does do hardly any computation and if the ALSA MIDI stack 
would introduce noticeable latency for the signal passing then it would be 
positively considered utter crap, wouldn't it? But perhaps it would be a good 
idea to run the filter with realtime priority, too.

I think I'd need to measure the latency by monitoring time stamps of midi 
signals coming in and at the same time recording the produced output of 
hydrogen via JACK... correlate those somehow... are there perhaps ready 
solutions to diagnose this? There are people playing MIDI synths with linux, 
right?


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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