[linux-audio-user] latency issues

[dwillis at stx.rr.com]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> It is a somewhat known problem with Pd. If you use Pd in OSS mode ("pd
> -oss" or similar) using ALSA's OSS emulation you should get much
> better results.  I have no idea and much too little understanding of
> ALSA programming, why this is so.

well, i'll be.  according to pd, with oss mode, i can get 
audiobuffer set down to 0 msec!  now to test with an actual audioloop 
(latency.pd).

did that, and i can get latency down to 4ms at 48k with oss emulation, 
instead of 14.6ms with plain alsa.  woohoo!  thanks a bunch!

-dave