Re: [timidity-talk] how to turn a midi keyboard into an electronic piano

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Hi.

>Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:24:44 +0800 (CST)
>From: Zhang Weiwu <zha...@re...>
>Subject: Re: [timidity-talk] how to turn a midi keyboard into an electronic
> piano
>
> What's hindering alsa 
>performance when it comes to midi that it latences 250ms?

TiMidity++ seems not to be designed for realtime MIDI playing,
tuned for midi file player, midi-to-wav converter.

Under WinXP, -q and -B option , and ASIO interface, will 
make slightly better response, but, delay kills me playing 
realtime with MIDI keys.:-p
# even CPU usages quite below 100%.

I've tried fluidsynth/qsynth, which seems to respond better 
than TiMidity++ for realtime MIDI key playing.
# even under windows sound driver on WinXP.
# May be more better response on Linux box.

Hardware MIDI box did more better work (better response) 
for realtime playing. (even MIDI signal path thru WinXP
box and returned to Hardware MIDI box.)
# compared with qsynth on WinXP.

--
wataru_em, Holiday Keyboard player.:-)