[fluid-dev] changing audio.period-size

[Hamish Moffatt]

Is there any harm in reducing audio.period-size on Windows? It's a lot 
bigger by default on Windows than Mac/Linux. Should I increase 
audio.periods to compensate?

Background: I have my own timing loops and I'm outputting events by 
calling fluid_synth_noteon/noteoff() just in time (or with 
fluid_sequencer_send_now()). However it seems that with the default 
parameters, notes are only scheduled on 20ms boundaries. If I get the 
time between my noteOn calls from fluid_sequencer_get_tick() it's always 
a multiple of 20, even though I'm calling it much more accurately than 
that. Reducing period-size to 256 helps. Is there a disadvantage, and is 
there a better way?


thanks,

Hamish