On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:27:04 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > jackd allows any number of periods. > > alsa allows any number of periods. > > the HDSP and Hammerfall h/w only allows 2 periods, because it follows > > the design of ASIO in its hardware/firmware design. > > And I assume that jack purely deals with direct hardware buffers, right? I would have thought not. When ZynAddSubFx is attached to freqtweak the buffering Jack does are in software, aren't they? (ls /dev/shm while Jack is running. Jack's FIFO buffers are in memory.) - Mark