Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:22 pm
Hi,
I've been working on this problem for two hours now and I solved it, I just wanted to post it here in case somebody else runs into it because I couldn't find a solution for this anywhere else.
When I played notes e.g. in the piano roll or in a plugin using the computer keyboard, the notes were played choppily after a few seconds.
Probably because I have been battling my audio interface for the past few days, I was convinced it would have something to with the buffer size or the JACK server or something, so I fiddled around with that stuff and even the kernel, for nothing. It turned out my first gut feeling had been right, it was just the typematic delay setting of the keyboard.
Solution [Linux]:
Set the typematic delay of your xserver to a value (in ms) longer than any note you'll ever play, e.g. 9999: xset r rate 9999 [9999 seems to be the max value]
To make it permanent, use xinitrc.
[Windows]
I haven't used Windows for years, but I think there used to be an easily accessible setting for the very same delay in the ~Keyboard settings in System Control (I think?) Mac might be similar.
Now it could be that this issue is so simple that everybody else just gets it, but maybe somebody else with his head caught up in so much other stuff that he forgets to check for the simple thing first can benefit from this
P.S.: To make this easier to find, some keywords: playback computer keyboard piano roll jerky choppy cut off intermittent jerkily shitty aw man why I'm so stupid
I've been working on this problem for two hours now and I solved it, I just wanted to post it here in case somebody else runs into it because I couldn't find a solution for this anywhere else.
When I played notes e.g. in the piano roll or in a plugin using the computer keyboard, the notes were played choppily after a few seconds.
Probably because I have been battling my audio interface for the past few days, I was convinced it would have something to with the buffer size or the JACK server or something, so I fiddled around with that stuff and even the kernel, for nothing. It turned out my first gut feeling had been right, it was just the typematic delay setting of the keyboard.
Solution [Linux]:
Set the typematic delay of your xserver to a value (in ms) longer than any note you'll ever play, e.g. 9999: xset r rate 9999 [9999 seems to be the max value]
To make it permanent, use xinitrc.
[Windows]
I haven't used Windows for years, but I think there used to be an easily accessible setting for the very same delay in the ~Keyboard settings in System Control (I think?) Mac might be similar.
Now it could be that this issue is so simple that everybody else just gets it, but maybe somebody else with his head caught up in so much other stuff that he forgets to check for the simple thing first can benefit from this
P.S.: To make this easier to find, some keywords: playback computer keyboard piano roll jerky choppy cut off intermittent jerkily shitty aw man why I'm so stupid