[LAU] Some Problems/Questions (about jack , qmidiarp and maybe other)

Luigi Curzi luigi_curzi at yahoo.it
Sun Jan 13 16:57:55 EST 2008


--- John Anderson <ardour at semiosix.com> ha scritto:

> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 05:18 +0100, luigi curzi
> wrote: 
> > > Low latency is necessary if you are using a midi
> controller to drive a
> > > synth on the PC, or if you are recording and you
> need to do software
> > > monitoring.
> > > 
> > 
> > with software monitoring do you mean the recording
> from software
> > sources?
> 
> Partly. I mean when you have an audio signal that
> runs into the
> soundcard, through jackd and the audio apps, and out
> again through the
> audio card. For example if you have a vocalist
> singing into a microphone
> to a track that's already been recorded. The
> vocalist will then hear a
> delay between what she or he sings and what she or
> he hears in the
> headphones. Which some people find very distracting.
> 
> In the above case you'd want to go for the lowest
> latency your system
> can handle. Otherwise using high latency setting for
> jack would get rid
> of the clicks and pops.
> 

so, if i want to use only my pc without external
instruments or vocalist (:-)) i don't need a very low
latency, is it?

> bye
> John
> 

ciao and thanks
luigi




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