Peter Nelson wrote: > 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. But I don't want xruns when playing live synthesis from MIDI input, either! -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
