Re: midi plugins vs soft synths vs synth plugins

Ted Felix <ted-Ll1PANez7xxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> writes:

>    That's not normal.  I'm running 11-year-old under-powered hardware 
> with no problems.
>
>    Have you configured your security limits and are you using a 
> real-time kernel?
>
>    See my guide if you haven't already:
>
> http://www.tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html
>
it's the standard archlinux kernel, which they say is sufficient:
"Since a while ago, the stock Linux kernel has proven to be adequate for realtime uses." 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio#Realtime_kernel

however, may be not for this, so i'm going to your guide!

>> i found that there were latency issues with timidity's metronome and my
>> keyboard presses (not so with fluidsynth though).
>
>    Running without a real-time kernel tends to cause this.
>
understood!


>> however, when i set JACK as those, it doesn't show up as such,
>
>    This is normal.  Rosegarden does not support JACK MIDI.
>
>> i find this puzzling because i though rg was supposed to use jack.
>
>    Rosegarden uses JACK for audio tracks.  It uses ALSA for MIDI.
>
silly me! i didn't think of that (even though i knew it).
anyway, i actually did get sound out of midi through jack by fiddling
with the qpwgraph for pipewire.

ok so i should stick to ALSA!


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In friendship,
prad