On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:16:33PM +0100, Peder Hedlund wrote: > Quoting Svend-Erik Kj?r Madsen <sv-e@xxxxxxx>: > > > On tir, 2009-01-27 at 15:03 +0100, Cassiel wrote: > > > >> > >> 5.3ms latencies: If you can't sense it... you don't need it > > I just ran a few test with a keyboard playing both the keyboard's > > soundmodule and through midi and Qsynth, and I must admit that latency > > was down to 1.3 ms before the audible time differece disapeard. > > Ok, I have to admit to lying; I only managed to go down to 5.8 ms > (128/44100/2). > But, then again, I'm running a generic vendor kernel (2.6.25.11) on a > seven years old CPU. I'd imagine a modern CPU being able to go lower, > so my question remains: > Has anyone with a modern PC tried to go low-latency with a non-patched kernel? > My requirements are very specific: I play live with other musicians, via MIDI, and it's funk music, and I play bass through my Linux laptop. Therefore, I have to be locked in with the drummers. When I hit the 1, it has to be right on top of the kick drum. I also use a lot of softsynths, and I'm playing live, so Xruns are unacceptable. Consistently LOW latency with no Xruns and CPU-intensive softsynths are very important to me. That said, my current setup is a 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo with a RT kernel and JACK set to -r 44100 -P 128 -n 3, using a USB soundcard and USB MIDI keyboard. I haven't calculated out what latency that is in milliseconds, but whatever it is, so far it works fine for me. It feels like I'm playing an actual instrument, not a sluggish computer. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
