On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:57 +0100, Luigi Curzi wrote: > --- John Anderson <ardour@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 05:18 +0100, luigi curzi > > wrote: > > > > Low latency is necessary if you are using a midi > > controller to drive a > > > > synth on the PC, or if you are recording and you > > need to do software > > > > monitoring. > > > > > > > > > > with software monitoring do you mean the recording > > from software > > > sources? > > > > Partly. I mean when you have an audio signal that > > runs into the > > soundcard, through jackd and the audio apps, and out > > again through the > > audio card. For example if you have a vocalist > > singing into a microphone > > to a track that's already been recorded. The > > vocalist will then hear a > > delay between what she or he sings and what she or > > he hears in the > > headphones. Which some people find very distracting. > > > > In the above case you'd want to go for the lowest > > latency your system > > can handle. Otherwise using high latency setting for > > jack would get rid > > of the clicks and pops. > > > > so, if i want to use only my pc without external > instruments or vocalist (:-)) i don't need a very low > latency, is it? Pretty much. Try out high latency settings, and unless you find that there are annoying delays you should be fine. bye John _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
