I would check out Planet CCRMA. This is the Stanford Center for Computer
Research in Music and Acoustics. They have a TON of info on how to tweak
your box and remove latency. They are based on FC3/4 but if you don't
use those distros, their tweaks can still be run on other flavors.
Brian Henning wrote:
Heh. Followup to my first message on this subject. I got TiMidity++
working, with the help of a howto I found. But I'd still like to
know what any of you guys use out there for sequencing and composition.
Also, what do you all do to address the issue of lag? If my 3-D games
can make me hear "KAPOW!!" at the (apparent) exact instant I click my
mouse button, why do most of my MIDI programs often suffer lag of a
second or more? If I'm chaining devices just as simply as MIDI-in ->
MIDI-synth, why do I have so much trouble getting anything LESS than
250ms of lag between when I press a key and when I hear a note? Any
pianists out there can imagine how hard it'd be to play a song if
your piano didn't make any sound until a quarter of a second after
you press a key..
This should be simple. Why isn't it? :-P
Cheers,
~Brian
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:28:44 -0500, Brian Henning
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Folks!
Just curious if anyone out there in TriLUG land does much with
MIDI on our favorite platform. I've been doing some looking around,
and a lot of what I've found hasn't been encouraging.
There're two main issues I currently face in wanting to get MIDI
functionality with my current setup. One is composition tools, and
so far I haven't even looked that far into it, because it's
currently undermined by the second issue, which is software synths.
If my onboard sound hardware has a hardware synth at all, it's a
cinch that it sounds like crap, and furthermore FC4 doesn't know
anything about it by default and I don't feel like expending the
effort to get it working when I'm so certain the sound results will
be horrid. So I'm looking for software synth programs, and I'm
coming up very discouraged.
Of course, there's TiMidity++, which seems to require a lot of
inside knowledge to get working (and doesn't include a GUI by
default). There's a few others, which all seem to have stagnated or
not be geared toward the simple rendering of a run-of-the-mill MIDI
song.
So I ask you all. What do yous guyses use, if anything?
Cheers,
~Brian
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