[linux-audio-user] latency compensation

Brett McCoy idragosani at chapelperilous.net
Fri Jul 22 11:22:12 EDT 2005


Sampo Savolainen wrote:

> Quite simple, actually. This example is for Ardour, but it should work
> in all Linux software which respect and use the latency values reported
> by some LADSPA plugins.
> 
> Say you have a Bus:
> inputs -> LADSPA 1 -> LADSPA 2 -> INSERT (sp/dif out & in) -> outputs
> 
> Newer versions of Ardour (currenty only in CVS) & Jack (the to be
> released 0.100.0) will automatically compensate for the latency caused
> by jack wiring.
> 
> The next step is to use the ingenious plugin by Steve Harris: Artificial
> Latency. This plugin does nothing, except return a specified amount of
> latency. The amount of latency it reports is controlled like any plugin
> is controlled.

Ah, cool, that's exactly what I was looking for... I knew Nuendo and 
Cubase had plugins to handle this kind of thing and wanted to verify 
that I could do the same with Ardour.

I'm using all CVS built stuff, pretty current, so this shouldn't be a 
problem.  Whoohoo!  Thanks!

-- Brett
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