Dear Jeanette, as David pointed as, as long as you don't need a low latency for monitoring or real-time effects, there's no reason against a larger buffer. You can even set it 4096 or even much larger. > get a noticeable delay. With cards that can potentially go down to 64 > samples, I feel a - perhaps unreasonable - hesitation to set the period > higher. Is this very unreasonable? Of course you get a delay in monitoring, but this doesn't affect recording, except if you want to adjust the mixer in e.g. ardour. But even a delay of 0.1s wouldn't hurt if it is sufficient to look at the meters simultaneously hearing the performance and the monitors. At least you could give it a try to see if it solves the problem. Best regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user