hey, Sean from CT (USA)

[seanl]

Just getting back into music. I've played synths back in the early 80's Never had much to say musically, now I'm older and have something to "say".

I've got a Korg M3, Korg Wavestation, Korg RadiasR, 2 EMU Proteus 2000's and a Proteus 2500 a QS6 and a QS7.1, the last two I use mostly as MIDI controllers...

So I'm not a huge fan of Windows (putting it politely)...I'm running a Core i7 3.4 GHz with 32 GB of DDR3 ram and a conventional HDD spinning at 10k. I build PC's for friends and I tend to always load Linux Mint on them so as I don't become a one man support center. My OS is LINUX Mint 16

I've downloaded Ardour (latest update) and am running QJack.

Musical preferences are stuff like Kaito, David Helpling, Kitaro, ....all Synth heavy stuff. Problem is I don't know much about MIDI because I kinda got out of the music thing just when MIDI was coming in.... I'm not really a LINUX geek although i've been putzing with it for about 10 years...

So I just had this odd message pop up when I launched Ardour..... seems my system is "governed" or something like that which could effect latency. Any clues as to what that means and how I could uncork this system to make latency go away?

Thanks in advance,

Sean

[tnovelli]

Hey Sean, welcome from next door in MA

Sounds like a pretty nice system you've got there. I wouldn't worry about all those warnings unless you're experiencing real problems. I mean, if you can do 256 or 128 frames/period (10 or 5 ms latency) with only the occasional XRUN, that's not bad.

I wonder if you've discovered the difference between ALSA MIDI and JACK MIDI yet... if not, have a look at a2jmidid. I usually don't need it myself, but you probably will if you're doing a lot with MIDI.

[Pablo]

Welcome!

So I just had this odd message pop up when I launched Ardour..... seems my system is "governed" or something like that which could effect latency. Any clues as to what that means ...

Yes, if it works why worry, but anyway:
https://community.ardour.org/node/7973