Re: [Jack-Devel] MIDI support for OpenBSD?

On Wednesday 13 June 2012 12:13:19 aCOSwt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Congratulations for your project.
> 
> *BSD are great OSes indeed.
> But... might not be the best choice as far as MIDI is concerned.
> I personally switched my desktop from freeBSD 6 to Linux because of MIDI.
> My opinion is that playing with MIDI, you will quickly realize the need for
> a good synchronization between events.
> I am not sure *BSD's schedulers can be tuned for reaching the levels of
> latency / interactivity this synchronization requires.
> 
> Sorry for this not positive and a bit out of topic piece of advice.

Hi,

I've been using FreeBSD exclusivly for USB MIDI since v8.0, and the ping time 
on MIDI using a graphical userland application is less than 6 milliseconds for 
one command looped back. What timings are you seeing?

Please also note there is now a dedicated USB MIDI driver in FreeBSD 8+ which 
talks RAW MIDI.

--HPS

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