Re: [fluid-dev] First Try Failure

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> As I've already said: this is a false myth. Jack doesn't improve
> latency if you only send fluidsynth output to the sound card.
> 
> For MIDI realtime routing (from your external MIDI keyboard to
> Rosegarden, and from Rosegarden to FluidSynth) ALSA Sequencer is
> required and adequate.

It's not a myth, it's an empirical observation: I do this. Alsa gives
around .25s latency in this setup for me, which is just
intolerable. Jack works.