[ardour-dev] latency adjustments for external devices

[Jesse Chappell]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Reuben Martin wrote:

> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I think this came up the other day. Sorry for covering duplicated
> > ground. I remember someone asking about plugin latency but I'm more
> > concerned with external hardware delays.
> > 
> >    If I know the latency going out through a hardware interface,
> > through a software reverb  in another PC and then back in through a
> > hardware interface is there any way for me to specify that known delay
> > to Ardour?
> 
> It would be nice if there were a way to manually override the latencies
> reported by the jack ports. That way if you are routing through external
> dsp hardware, you could append their latencies to the soundcard IO port
> latencies.
> 
> Is there any such tool currently available?

Yes, I had Steve Harris add just such a plugin to the SWH plugin 
set called Artificial Latency (latency).  In time ardour should 
have a builtin way to do it, but use this until then.

jlc