[LAU] Basic question about use of a lowlatency kernel

[Tim Goetze]

[michael noble]
>On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Tim Goetze <tim at quitte.de> wrote:
>
>> If you're not doing anything funky (and you'd have to go out of your
>> way to)
>>
>
>My understanding is that the latency measure displayed by JACK is for one
>cycle of the entire JACK graph (or something like that). That means apps in
>a standard linear signal chain won't add extra latency. It also means you
>don't have to be that funky to add extra latency - just put a loop anywhere
>in your signal chain (eg. a send from Ardour to an external jack app and
>back into Ardour). The audio won't be processed by the client at the loop
>point until the next execution cycle, effectively adding a full cycle of
>latency at that point in the signal chain.
>
>At least, that's how I think it was patiently explained to me a while back.

It's true, and I consider a processing graph containing a loop funky.
It seems our funkiness scales are calibrated to different references.
:)

Tim