[LAU] RME HDSP Multiface Windows vs Linux & Jack

[Nedko Arnaudov]

Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen <sv-e at sv-e.dk> writes:

> Hi
> I've newly installed a desktop system with dual boot 
> windows/ubuntuStudio and discovered something exiting.
>
> If I play around with ZynAddSubFX in Windows, I can adjust the card to 
> 64 frames 96000KHz and play with 1,5 ms latency without any kind of 
> sound glitch or interrupts at all.
>
> If I try the same with UbuntuStudio and jack I get a lot of X-runs as I 
> play, in a serious situation it's no good, especially as I'm beginning 
> to use effects in and out of my Multiface in real time for example guitar.
>
> Now that I discovered that my card is fully capable of playing with 
> extreme low latency I'm not quite satisfied with running 20ms or more in 
> UbuntuStudio or any other Linux DAW.
>
> Is there anything I can do to tune my jack installation to obtain lower 
> latency and more stability with my card, so far I haven't had any luck 
> tweaking the jack settings.

ZynAddSubFX has realtime issues. Linux realtime setup is quite sensitive
to misbehaving programs.

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 188 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20080722/d7c29a80/attachment.pgp