30 Oct
2011
30 Oct
'11
12:25 p.m.
On 10/30/2011 12:02 PM, Dave Stikkolorum wrote:
Hi,
I am a musician and programmer.
I use a laptop with an internal soundcard (intel)
and ubuntu studo.
When I see the qjack control settings window
I always see a 46.6 ms latency.
On a older Desktop computer with an internal ac97 soundcard
or an pci sweex (cheap) I have the same problem.
Reducing the sample period to 512 , reduces the latency, but
always ends up with problems.
My question is how to have a good studio setup
for recording (and playing midi in the background)?
Is it possible to better the performance with an external soundcard?
What are your experiences?
I also tried ccma an av linux, but the same problems.
Anyone suggestions?
Regards,
Dave Stikkolorum
Hello Dave,
46.4ms is the default JACK latency (1024 frames / 44100 sample rate * 2
periods). You can try lowering it by reducing the number of frames. But
if you get xruns then (buffer errors) then you may need to optimize your
Ubuntu install. You might want to look here:
http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration
And it's possible to get better performance with an external soundcard,
especially compared to onboard cards and specifically in the case of
ac97 soundcards. The latter just refuse to work at lower latencies (at
least for me). There are quite some soundcards available that yield good
performance and that are compatible with Linux:
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/current_audio_gear
For starters could you run cat /proc/asound/cards in a terminal on the
laptop with the Intel soundcard?
Best,
Jeremy