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Subject: Re: RTLinux/ALSA mix
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:25:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Eli Brandt <eli@v.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
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Benjamin GOLINVAUX wrote:
> For me, latency of 7ms is not much better than 40ms : both let you record
> stuff, but not give any fx return to musicians playing on stage or in a
> studio.....

Yeah, what 7ms does let you do is use the computer as a tolerable
MIDI-controlled synth, whereas 40ms is right out.

> So... does anyone feel interested about this integration of ALSA drivers in
> a real-time linux kernel extension ?

Andy Lo A Foe reports 3-ms latency from the standard kernel.
Personally, I'd be pretty happy with that (just imagine you're
standing 3' further from your monitors), happy enough that working to
port drivers to something as different as RTLinux doesn't have much
appeal.  Other people may have different requirements, of course.

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     Eli Brandt  |  eli+@cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/

