[LAU] Basic question about use of a lowlatency kernel

Tim Goetze tim at quitte.de
Wed Feb 20 09:52:51 UTC 2013


[Len Ovens]
>While I don't doubt the calculations could be done in that time, I assumed
>they would still have to use the same size buffering as jack, so even if
>it was all done internal to one effect there would still be at least
>2.67ms in the example above. 2.6ms each if they each hit jack in between.
>TBH, I have used my netbook as a guitar effect with 128f/p and no
>noticable delay.

If you're not doing anything funky (and you'd have to go out of your
way to), multiple jack clients can indeed process the signal without
adding any latency.  Marvellous, isn't it?

Tim


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