Hello jack community,
I am trying to run two separate Jack instances, one for low latency monitoring using Carla
as a plugin host and one for recording using Ardour with a higher buffersize for
performance. The two jack servers are connected by zita-njbridge.
Its working quite well so far, the issue is that I cannot compensate for the latency of
the zita-bridges, 2*10ms. To my knowledge, jack provides latency information to Ardour, so
i need to inform jack about the latency happening. I tried the following setups:
Main Jack, alsa backend using USB Interface (Presonus Audiobox USB96)
Ardour Jack, dummy backend
and
Main Jack, alsa backend using USB Interface
Ardour Jack, alsa backend using onboard audio (Intel 8 Series/C220 if it matters)
Signal way in both cases for recording is:
System in Main Jack - Zita to Ardour-Jack - Ardour - Zita to Main Jack - System out Main
Jack
So I never use the onboard physical connections.
The first setup is problematic because the dummy backend doesn't have extra latency
options, the latter seems to be ignoring the -I -O numbers in the Ardour-Jack, at least
jack_iodelay tells me the same frame count no matter what I enter, which is not the case
in the Main-Jack, where I can get it to 0 with the correct settings.
So I get late recordings by 20ms from zita + the latency of the Main-Jack, that the
Ardour-Jack doesn't know about.
Is there any way to make this work? And why is the Ardour-Jack ignoring my extra latency
settings?
Even though I don't think it matters too much, I'm on Arch Linux, and using jack2
1.9.16-1 and Ardour 6.3-3.
Looking forward to your replies, stay safe and healthy!
Best regards,
Robin
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