[LAU] Jack and WiFi

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Clifford Dunn wrote:

> So my previous email about the Focusrite can be discarded...I linked
> all the clicking and pops to the wifi. With it turned off, I have no
> issue. This is fine and great for my music production, but what do I
> do if I want to browse the net and listen to my music collection?
> Currently, it'll crackle like crazy.

Wired network. I don't know your particular issue, but in my case if I set 
the latency high enough jack was ok. My pops were once a minute with wifi 
on. Once every 5 sec with it turned off and gone with the kernel module 
disabled with modeprobe -r. I also found that removing the kernel mod for 
the internal audio (or disabling it in bios) was helpful. You might try a 
USB wireless plug, a different wireless TX may cause less problems. It 
would have to be plugged into a USB port on a different irq than the 
audio.

newer computers are faster, but seem to require higher latency. My old 
(more than 10 year old) P4 can do less than 1ms (as jack calculates 
things... the audio IF adds 1 ms to that) latency with no xruns, but 
because it is slower, I can run less effects. So far it has not been an 
issue, but I am not a keyboard player either :)  For recording I use about 
5ms latency and record with no effects. I mix down closer to 50ms latency 
and add any effects then.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net