On Fri, April 7, 2017 10:42 am, john gibby wrote: > it seemed to me I want ecasound to be a Slave to the > earlier parts of the pipeline so everything runs in lockstep For audio you get that no matter what you do, it is just how jackd works. All audio applications are "slave" to the jackd server. Jack transport is completely unrelated to the audio pipeline, so the short answer to your original question is that for your audio processing only application, jack transport is unrelated, it should not matter what setting you select. -- Chris Caudle _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user