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Cross-platform music production software
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Low-Latency-Mode for recording midi #6128

Open iH0118 opened 3 years ago

iH0118 commented 3 years ago

It would be nice to have a button / keybind to temporarily lower the sample rate and latency as for recording midi even a delay of 5ms can make it way harder to play things using a midi keyboard / controller

Spekular commented 3 years ago

The only factor I can think of that would affect this is buffer size, which can already be configured in LMMS's settings. Have you tried lowering it to see if that gets you an acceptably low latency?

iH0118 commented 3 years ago

The only factor I can think of that would affect this is buffer size, which can already be configured in LMMS's settings. Have you tried lowering it to see if that gets you an acceptably low latency?

The buffer size determines the time the computer has to calculate everything between midi signals and final output audio, so lowering it would make even working on small drafts impossible due to extreme cpu loads my laptop can't handle. my idea was a low-latency-mode (like most DAWs have), that temporarily steps down the buffer size as well as the audio quality for recording.