Re: [Lmms-users] Annoying time delay on MIDI in

[Nikos C. <re...@ar...>]

Can it use ASIO?  Because otherwise it won't do much latency-wise.

On 08/27/2011 09:54 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> nikos you can also get jack on windows too
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <re...@ar...
> <mailto:re...@ar...>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/27/2011 05:08 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>      > So, I've hooked my girlfriend's cheap'n'cheerful Casio keyboard
>      > (CTK-2100) to my netbook running LMMS 0.4.10.
>      >
>      > The MIDI input works great ... unfortunately, it has an annoying time
>      > delay of something like 1/8 or 1/16 second on input. This is
>     enough to
>      > make trying to record to piano-roll from MIDI very annoying and
>      > difficult.
>      >
>      > What would be causing this? Does anyone else get this? Is there any
>      > way to disable it? Is it actually the keyboard itself?
>
>     This is a problem everyone has on all operating systems.  It's called
>     "latency".  If you're on Linux, you solve that by using JACK instead of
>     ALSA or PulseAudio.  To bring latency down even further, you then either
>     use an RT kernel (overkill) or a standard kernel patched with BFS
>     (recommended.)
>
>     If you're on Windows, you need to install an ASIO driver for your sound
>     card.  If there isn't one, you can use the asio4all driver (google it.)
>       But I don't know if LMMS supports ASIO.  If not, you will have to live
>     with the latency and there's nothing you can do short of using something
>     other than LMMS.