[timidity-talk] timidity latency

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I'm experiencing a serious latency problem using TiMidity++ in real
time. I hit a note in vkeybd, or on a real external keyboard, and it
takes about HALF A SECOND before timidity responds with sound. I don't
know exactly where the latency is caused, but I'll describe my set up.

I'm running "timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0" as root.

It seems that timidity is the problem, because if I use an actual
hardware synth and control it from vkeybd, there is no such delay. Since
things are responsive in this case, I don't see how a realtime kernel
will help in the general case (I'm not using one). It just seems that
timidity is taking a long time to generate the sound.

I'm using Linux 2.6.11 with ALSA 1.0.9 on Debian. The debian package
version of timidity is 2.13.2-6.

Am I alone, or have other people experienced this? And what is the
solution?

Thanks!

Ryan