<div dir="ltr">Do recent usb soundcards need "-n 3"?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:31 AM Ralf Mardorf <<a href="mailto:ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net">ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 16:59 +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:<br>
> What is the difference between<br>
>   jackd -n2 -p192<br>
> and<br>
>   jackd -n3 -p128<br>
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Anything other than -n2 is for esoteric reasons:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface</a><br>
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There might be some truth behind the theory, but in practise something<br>
like 128 or 256 frames, 2 periods/buffer at 48 KHz works without issues.<br>
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