On Saturday 31 December 2005 17:10, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:27 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > On Friday 30 December 2005 17:37, Werner Schweer wrote:
> > > The ALSA seq api is from ancient time were no realtime threads were
> > > available in linux. Only a kernel driv
Paul Davis:
> i guess it all depends on one's definition of
> "sufficient". my take is that there are several MIDI
> h/w boxes that guarantee MIDI delivery to a
> resolution that matches the wire protocol
> (1/3msec). until we have scheduling capabilities that
> match this (or better), i don't
On Saturday 31 December 2005 00:52, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> All of this depends on whether physical port midi activity is really
> handled by IRQ's too. Anyone know more?
I don't know every MIDI interface details, but there are many different
variations. Please, somebody with better knowledge c
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:03:06AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:04 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> > 1. If things have to be timed accurately, it seem logical to concentrate
> > this activity at one point. At least then the timing will be consistent,
> > you can impose prior
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:58 +, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Paul Davis:
> > most of the ALSA sequencer's
> > capabilities are redundant, which is compounded
> > because it currently has
> > no way of providing sufficiently accurate scheduling
>
> You say this as if it were self-evident, when it's b
Paul Davis:
> most of the ALSA sequencer's
> capabilities are redundant, which is compounded
> because it currently has
> no way of providing sufficiently accurate scheduling
You say this as if it were self-evident, when it's been
the subject of much of this thread. _Does_ it have
no way of p
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:01:46 +0100
Werner Schweer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> higher priority thread can interrupt lower priority threads. What do
> you gain if the soundcard can interrupt the jack thread? I believe
> it does not matter.
Midi input is generating IRQ's, too (at least it appears
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:04 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:10:44PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:27 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > > On Friday 30 December 2005 17:37, Werner Schweer wrote:
> > >
> > > > The ALSA seq api is from ancient
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:00 +, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Paul Davis:
> > frank (v.d.p) had the right idea back when he
> > started this
>
> Huh? Started what?
the ALSA sequencer.
