did you check the AVLinux forum? On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Guru Prasad B. R. wrote: > Hello everyone, > So I've been trying out AVLinux. By the looks of it, quite impressive > - but I soon ran into a rather serious issue, but I doubt whether it > has > anything to do with AVLinux or not. I need your help in this knowing > for > sure. > > My usual setup involves a piano sample on Linuxsampler and a strings > soundfont on qsynth. I had an unusual gig last week that required no > piano sounds, but instead use of multiple layered samples. I therefore > used only qsynth, with 3 engines running concurrently. So in my brand > new AVLinux setup, I loaded up my samples, and had sooperlooper > running > 2-3 loops concurrently, all on a core2-duo macbook. > > Initially, all was ok. No noticeable latency, no xruns whatsoever.But > during the rehearsals, this happened: after sometime, specially at > some > point when sooperlooper was running full steam, suddenly there was > this > HUGE latency, coupled with lots of dropped notes. As in, I could hold > down a dozen keys simultaneously on the midi controller, and not all > notes could be heard; those that did, would be heard at various > instants upto about half a second later. Completely unuseable. > > This would persist even after restarting the jack server, but > dissappear > on rebooting the OS. > > To me, what is scary and irksome, is not (only) that this glitch > happened consistently, but that there were no error messages in the > qjackctl window. No xruns. Nothing that suggested that something had > gone terribly wrong somewhere (which it had). > > I actually compromised on my gig sound, by offloading a lot of samples > what I wanted layered. I don't know if it was because of this, but I > didn't notice this particular issue on the gig itself (but it gave me > sleepless nights prior). But then, 5 mins before the start of the > program, I was left with no audio out of my system! (again, no error > messages). Restarted jack server, and everything back to normal. > > Again, no error messages/warnings. Not so much as a by-your-leave. ;) > > I'm now intent on finding the source of the problem. I'm looking for > pointers... where do I begin? Where's the 'smoking gun'? > Thanks in advance! > Cheers, > > Guru > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
