Thanks Mark, I guess it takes a little experimentation to find suitable settings. I'm wondering though, that if the xrun reported says: delay of 5132.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 5009.000; restart ... All I'm losing is 0.1 ms of audio? These short xruns I see reported aren't even audible on my good speakers, so I wouldn't mind (yes, I know it's not ideal) losing this audio to have a lower latency. Cheers, Andr?s Mark Knecht wrote: >On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:11:54 -0500, Andres Cabrera ><andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>Hi Rui, >>Thanks very much for your explanation. I remember there was a discussion >>about this not too long ago, but I'm wondering if the xruns matter when >>recording only. You could record at low latency, then raise it for >>mixing and mastering (like you usually do on any system). Would this be >>ok? Or would the recorded audio be missing small pieces? >> >>Cheers, >>Andres >> >> > >You cannot know for certain. If the xrun is Ardour not delivering >audio to the sound card then you get a click in the output audio. Not >a killer problem. If the xrun is Ardour not acquiring audio from the >sound card then the data is lost forever. Much bigger problem. > >I would recommend that you record with latencies just high enough to >not be overly painful, and then push them higher when doing mixing if >you are not interfacing with external signal paths for post >processing. > >- Mark > > > > >
