At Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:38:20 -0700,
Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > More information,
> >
> > when I run the program with 100% load using my VIA motherboard midi, I
> > loose no bytes as far as I can see.
> >
> > I use alsa 0.9.4
> >
> > Marcus
> 
> Marcus,
>    The HDSP 9652 MIDI interface has (for me under Linux) always dropped lots
> of notes. Mostly I find it interesting that it drops note off information
> and doesn't seem to drop note-on. I cannot be sure how well it handles
> controller information.

do you mean dropping notes in reading MIDI?
well, IIRC, you reported also that the behavior of MIDI out is
strange...  oh sigh.

> 
>    The same machine booted into Windows runs perfectly, so I'm pretty sure
> it's not a hardware issue.

dropping a note is surely a bug of the driver.
unless the FIFO overflows, no dropping should happen.

btw, could you try the attached patch?
(and in-advance-scheduled excuse if it causes a hang-up :)


Takashi

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