[Ardour-users] WAV files, xruns

[Lawrie Abbott]

Anthony DiSante wrote:

> Robert Jonsson wrote:
>
>>> OK, I'm a knucklehead.  I only started using the --realtime option 
>>> when I
>>> started using the -p option (I didn't know about --realtime before 
>>> that).
>>> When I use --realtime, I can use a period as low as 512 without 
>>> xruns. (And jackd actually gives me an error and quits if I try to 
>>> set it lower
>>> than that.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Atleast for SB-Live the alsa driver does not permit using buffers 
>> smaller than 512 samples if you run full duplex (can be much smaller 
>> if you specify only playback or only record) Presumably this 
>> limitation is there in the Audigy driver too. (And it _is_ a driver 
>> limitiation, not hardware)
>
>
> Ah.  OK, then it turns out that if I specify -C (capture only), jackd 
> still won't let me specify a period below 512.  But if I specify -P 
> (playback only), then it will let me use a period as low as 32.  So 
> for playback, I _can_ get latency as low as <2ms (=2*32/48kHz), but 
> for recording, the lowest I can go is 11ms (=512/48kHz).
>
> So what numbers does everyone else get?  Is 11ms "good enough" for 
> recording, say, 8 tracks without problems?  (Not that my current 
> hardware supports that, but I do plan on getting something like a 
> 1010LT sometime.)
>
>
I'm confused by your numbers. I think most people probably are reading 
their latency figures straight from Qjackctls interface (GUI). 
Acceptable latency is whatever the musician can handle. Check out 
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/lola_lomo.htm  for good 
background  info.

Lawrie