[Jack-Devel] What about the number of buffers?

[Holger Marzen]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Tim wrote:

> On 8/7/19 10:59 AM, Holger Marzen wrote:
> > What is the difference between
> >    jackd -n2 -p192
> > and
> >    jackd -n3 -p128
> > 
> > Both give a total of 384 samples in buffers.
> > What's the difference for jackd?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Holger
> 
> Should not make a difference for clients, they would
>  simply see a 384 buffer size in both cases.
> Although, I'm not sure 192 is an allowable period size.

It is. But there are some clients that need powers of 2, e.g. the
Guitarix convolvers that handle impulse responses. I read that you can
do FFT even with non-powers-of-2. I use Klangfalter for my impulse
responses and noticed no flaws when using non-powers-of-2.

Regards
Holger