On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:31 -1000, david wrote: > Just wondering. Without an RT kernel here, my 2 laptops seem to run my > simple audio needs pretty well at 64msec latency. At least, it's never > bothered my playing along with computer-generated audio. > > I don't do any heavy-duty audio work here. Once I tried Jackrack, put > one effect in it (that worked) or one amplifer (that worked) but trying > to use both didn't. But I don't know if that had so much to do with > latency or lack of RT kernel as with a smallish amount of memory and an > underpowered processor driving the whole thing. Now that I''ve upgraded > the memory on both laptops, perhaps it would work? On musicbox, with > 512MB, using a single good quality (larger) soundfont was enough to > cause problems. With 768MB in it, it works without problems. > > I see people on the list running much lower latencies than 64msec, and > seemingly trying to get even lower ... > > So, just wondering. If you are doing anything with live audio such as effect processing or synthesis from MIDI input, you will probably want sub-20ms latency. If you are just recording then higher latency may be prefered to reduce CPU load and the risk of xruns. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
