Play Bass with M-Audio Delta 66

[wayne]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 23:01 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote:

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> wayne wrote:
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> > nice overview of setting up direct bass/guitar.  good to have in the
> > archives.  however, i have never seen the following additions to
> > /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/modules.  can you explain (even briefly) what
> > they do?  i have neither and i "seem" to have a sorta/kinda working
> > FA-66 UBS 8.04 setup.
> > 
> > thanks again.
> > 
> >> Add one line in file /etc/sysctl.conf.
> >>
> >> # Ubuntu Studio
> >> #
> >> dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024
> 
> What this does is to increase the maximum frequency that an unprivileged
> process can request from the RTC.  Newer systems have a high performance
> clock, so the key might be: dev.hpet.max-user-freq.  Either way the
> default value is 64.

    thanks.  i found some more info on these settings on-line as well.
we shall see if they help with not enough "real time audio processing"
messages in Rosegarden.  i have seen some people setting both to values
as high as 2048 or 3072.  does that make sense?

> 
> >>
> >> Add one line in file /etc/modules.
> >>
> >> # Ubuntu Studio
> >> #
> >> snd-seq
> >>
> This just makes sure that the midi module is loaded, which does not
> always happen automatically.
> 
> I have never changed the timer option but then I have never bothered
> with firewire devices (not worth the pain IMO).

    point taken.  unfortunately, trying to more with less, or at least
what i already have.

thanks again.


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