Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Sunday 04 September 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > As I've already said: this is a false myth. Jack doesn't improve
> > latency if you only send fluidsynth output to the sound card.
> > 
> > For MIDI realtime routing (from your external MIDI keyboard to
> > Rosegarden, and from Rosegarden to FluidSynth) ALSA Sequencer is
> > required and adequate.
> 
> It's not a myth, it's an empirical observation: I do this. Alsa gives
> around .25s latency in this setup for me, which is just
> intolerable. Jack works.

I think that you need to configure your setup better. Try setting with 
fluidsynth's ALSA output the same ALSA  device, buffer size and number of 
periods that you are using in jackd.

Regards,
Pedro