[PD] MIDI In-to-Out Latency

[Ingo Scherzinger]

Looks like there are some problems with the soundcard drivers.
I'm running very heavy patches with 3 ms. Both on Windows XP and Ubuntu.
Audio and MIDI.
However, on Windows I am using a RME HDSP card which has very good ASIO
drivers. Don't forget to set system options to "background tasks" (very
important!).
I also noticed that in general Intel CPUs are pretty bad for Pd since they
use hyperthreading which makes Pd see two CPUs and uses only 50% of one
core. AMDs are twice as efficient because Pd uses the entire core.

Ingo


> cyrille henry wrote:
> > but since you don't like this, you should : in pd / startup
> > add in "startup flags" :
> > -noaudio -audiobuf 0 -mididev 3
> > than : "save all setting" and it should work for next reboot...
> >
> 
> That's fine but what if you want to trigger sound with the MIDI input?
> I've been trying some settings and find that if I set the delay less
> than 100ms the MIDI delay goes up to about 500ms, if it works at all.
> 
> I usually only use Pd on WinXp to generate background tracks since the
> latency is so awful compared to linux.
> 
> Martin