Hi to all, this is my first post in this forum.
I'm trying to use PD's patches inside my setup, and now I'm struggling with the MIDI latency that PD creates.
First of all, I'm a drummer and I use a drumpad(DrumKat) to trigger samples on my laptop, so for me the latency is a 1st class problem.
I have two setups: one with Ubuntu 10.04(Kernel 2.6.33-29-realtime) + jack, and the other with OSX leopard + jackosx. The first one is the more tested.
I want to know the latency that PD creates between notein-noteout process.
To do this, I simply connected my drumpad to PD's midiin, PD's midiout to PD's midiin, and opened my patch(attached to this post).
If the patch is right, there is a link between jack's latency and PD's MIDI latency.
If I set jack's framebuffer to 256, I have 11.6 msec of audio latency and 5.8 ms of PD's MIDI latency.
If I set jack's framebuffer to 128, I have 5.8 msec of audio latency and 2.9 ms of PD's MIDI latency.
Is this correct? Is there a way to reduce MIDI latency without changing the audio latency of jack?
Thank you and sorry for my english.
Nicola