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I set up my MIDI keyboard with fluidsynth on raspbian, mostly according to this how to.

It all works fine, but I've got a ~1 second latency. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?

RPi model: B
Raspbian image: 2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian
MIDI Keyboard: Behringer UMA 25S

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I'd guess that you're gaining the delay due to some sort of buffering taking place or due to high CPU load. The later you can check by running the top command.

The FluidSynth Wiki suggests three command line options you can use to reduce latency.

-r=RATE (sample rate, default 44100)
-c=NUM  (number of audio buffers, default 16)
-z=SIZE (buffer size, default 64)

These go in the start_fluid script from that page. I'd suggest setting the last two command line options to half their default values, so 8 and 32 respectively and see if that improves performance.

Edit: if sound starts to stutter, increase them until it stops and latency is acceptable. You can change them independently as well.

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Fred
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this worked for me. Add this lines of code to "squishboxconf.yaml" file:

audio.periods: 4

audio.period-size: 64

synth.sample:rate: 44100.000

Hope it helps!

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