Re: [fluid-dev] New development

[Bernat Arlandis i Mañó]

Josh Green escrigué:
> I think the difference is between clocking MIDI events in MIDI files
> based on the system timer versus using the sound card as the timing
> source (how much audio has been played back).
It seems so.
>  It makes sense to me to
> process the audio based on the audio playback.  This would lead to
> identical playback between successive renders of a MIDI file, which is
> what we want.
This could be the only advantage I can think of, but it would be only 
reproducible in the same hardware, driver and audio buffer size setup. 
If you're thinking on case testing then the only solution is non-RT 
rendering.
>   I don't see a problem with this change and I think it
> would vastly improve things.  There might be a little more overhead as
> far as MIDI event processing, but it would lead to more accurate timing
> as well.
>
>   
This would worsen latency since the core thread would have to do more 
work at the critical point where the sound card is waiting for data. 
Besides, I don't think having the MIDI file player depending on the 
audio driver is good.

And, please, this shouldn't be taken as disrespect to Antoine's work, 
I'd still have a look at it to see what he has really accomplished.

I think it's cool having this discussion now, since you're the 
maintainer and you'll want to have some control in the future 
development, it's logical. I'd like to know how good we work it out when 
we don't agree. :)

Cheers.

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Bernat Arlandis i Mañó