Hi Ad<br><br>thanks for the explanation and pointers, I'll check them out.<br><br>I am going to try and use my spare removable hard drive to install Ubuntu and see how it works with the hardware I have.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br><br><b><i>Adam Sweet <drinky76@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> -<mawkati@yahoo.co.uk><mawkati@yahoo.co.uk><br>Hmm... It gets murky in these waters. I don't think<br>that your kernel will be the cause of the problems<br>with the soft synth. I don't know what that problem<br>could be. Kernel issues related to sound are down to<br>the fact that most kernels have an audio latency<br>problems. This means that you record something and it<br>plays back a few milliseconds out of synch with what<br>you recorded along to. Another problem is what are<br>called xruns and there are 2 types:<br><br>1) A buffer
underrun happens during playback, when<br>your sound card tries to read data from the buffer,<br>but your software has not yet filled it.<br>2) A buffer overruns happens during recording, when<br>your sound card tries to write data to buffer, but<br>your software has not yet emptied it.<br><br>Neither of which are good news, they lead to gaps in<br>your audio.<br><br>The remedy for this is to build a kernel that contains<br>real-time pre-emption patches, which is non-trivial if<br>you've never done it before. However as I said, this<br>isn't likely to be your problem at this stage. I've<br>only just started dipping my toes into the water with<br>Linux audio recording and I don't know a great deal<br>yet.<br><br>However, a very good website is<br>http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki despite being Ubuntu<br>specific, should help guide you in the right way and<br>looks like it explains sound fonts.<br><br>I can't help explain why some of your apps don't work<br>I'm afraid. Myabe
launch them on the comand line and<br>see what kind of output they produce when you do what<br>won't work for you.<br><br>Ad<br><br>-- <br><br>http://www.drinky.org.uk<br><br>http://blog.adamsweet.org<br><br><br> <br>___________________________________________________________ <br>Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" – The Wall Street Journal <br>http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wolves LUG mailing list<br>Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/<br>Mailing list: Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Mailing list home: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves<br></mawkati@yahoo.co.uk></mawkati@yahoo.co.uk></blockquote><br><p> 
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