Chris:
Thanks for the additional information.
Actually, playing piano with the pedal down was how I discovered the
trick of avoiding under-runs by limiting the polyphony.
I was happily playing away (on a 1.5 gigahertz machine), oblivious to
the world, when the sound started cutting out. Tha
Even on my Intel Core i7 (2.8 GHz quad-core) I am able to get Fluidsynth
to cause xruns when playing really fast on a stereo piano sound that I
have (voice polyphony at 256). As I am playing fast arpeggios with the
pedal down, I can watch the jack dsp load (as reported by Cadence) go
higher and hi
