IIUC you're playing a soft synth by a keyboard, connected via a hardware MIDI interface, when you get audible "drop outs"? If so, does the MIDI interface and or the audio device share the interrupt with something else? If so, did you unbound or remount hardware to get rid of shared IRQs? Did you increase Frames/Period? What's the output of /path/to/rtirq status? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user