Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-30 Thread Remi Bernhard
On Sun, 30 May 2004 08:35:21 -0500 Jan Depner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 04:09, Remi Bernhard wrote: > > Hi Tim and all, > > > > > > On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST) > > Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [Remi Bernhard] > > > >I tried with kernel 2

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 04:09, Remi Bernhard wrote: > Hi Tim and all, > > > On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST) > Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [Remi Bernhard] > > >I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. > > >I have the same xruns :-/ > > > > > >Any other idea ? > > >

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-30 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hi Tim and all, On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:34:49 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Remi Bernhard] > >I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. > >I have the same xruns :-/ > > > >Any other idea ? > > checklist: > > * running jackd as root? with -R option? Tried -> failed.

Re: [ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Jan Depner] > Agreed. But the problem that keeps popping up on the lists is that >people who are not doing live sound, have cards that do hardware >monitoring, and don't need to use a tiny buffer size waste their time >trying to get the minimum buffer size because they think they need to >g

Re: [ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 09:31, Tim Goetze wrote: > depends on what 'system' we're talking about, which isn't really clear > in the first place (nor is it too important, but here goes anyway ... > :) > > you can see the whole setup as the system, then latency is the time > from keypress to voltage c

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] >I tried with kernel 2.4.25 + lowlatency patch. >I have the same xruns :-/ > >Any other idea ? checklist: * running jackd as root? with -R option? * tried running jackd without any clients? * IDE-DMA enabled? * ll-sysctl interface chosen at kernel build time? turned it on? * X run

[ot] Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Jan Depner] >On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 07:13, Tim Goetze wrote: >> [Remi Bernhard] >> >To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth >> >(zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing >> >from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a "lag" time, that man can >

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 07:13, Tim Goetze wrote: > [Remi Bernhard] > >To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth > >(zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing > >from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a "lag" time, that man can > >hear, between the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
On Sat, 29 May 2004 13:44:40 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Remi Bernhard] > >So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install > >2.4.25 instead ? > > i do think so because i never saw any hard facts about latency posted > for the 2.6 series, while 2.4.x

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] >To be more sharp, i need to reduce latency because i use softsynth >(zynaddsubfx, fluidsynth, etc.) that needs a low latency when playing >from midi keyboard, and if not, there is a "lag" time, that man can >hear, between the time when you hit the key, and the time it is played. >

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hi, > As far as minimizing buffer size is concerned - if > you are doing live audio or you want to monitor recording with inboard > effects turned on you need to have a small buffer size. With the > envy24 chipset cards you can use hardware monitoring so you can set > the buffer size to 2048 and

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] >So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install >2.4.25 instead ? i do think so because i never saw any hard facts about latency posted for the 2.6 series, while 2.4.x-ll is well documented and proven to work quite well here and elsewhere. it _could_ also be

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:16, Remi Bernhard wrote: > So i have 2.6.5 kernel, and not 2.4.x. Do you think i should install > 2.4.25 instead ? > > > > > (i gather that 2.4 is still the better choice for low-latency > > operations.) > > > > I read the alsa-* archives, and i saw a thread with two p

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hi, On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:52:15 +0200 (CEST) Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Remi Bernhard] > >I read a lot a great thing about the audiophile 24/96 on the net, and > >i decided to buy it to get better latency than my old sblive! I just > >received the audiophile 24/96 and unfortunatl

Re: [Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Tim Goetze
[Remi Bernhard] >I read a lot a great thing about the audiophile 24/96 on the net, and i >decided to buy it to get better latency than my old sblive! I just >received the audiophile 24/96 and unfortunatly, i have a lot of XRuns >with when i run jackd. my old system had various 2.4.x-ll kernels, as

[Alsa-devel] Xruns with Audiophile 2496 M-audio

2004-05-29 Thread Remi Bernhard
Hello, I read a lot a great thing about the audiophile 24/96 on the net, and i decided to buy it to get better latency than my old sblive! I just received the audiophile 24/96 and unfortunatly, i have a lot of XRuns with when i run jackd. I already tried the following : - i changed irq (several