On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Billy Biggs wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
> > 
> > > >   For MIDI I'm using a Roland MPU-IPC-T card.  MPU-401.
> > > 
> > > Jaroslav do you know if there are similar problems on this card with
> > > too little MIDI TX/RX FIFO size, and/or lack of an IRQ connected to
> > > it ? 
> > 
> > Yes, the problem is in the MPU-401 hardware specification. This hardware
> > haven't the TX interrupt. Every soundcard with the standard MPU-401
> > emulation has this problem.
> 
>   What card would you recommend for responsive MIDI then?  Or, should I
> not care, and just make sure I code to be as low-latency as possible?

Chipsets with full IRQ based RX & TX:

Trident 4DWave DX or NX
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370,ES1371,ES1373)
Gravis UltraSound

                                                        Jaroslav

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