Re: [LAU] Some Problems/Questions (about jack , qmidiarp and maybe other)

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:57 +0100, Luigi Curzi wrote:
> --- John Anderson <ardour@email-addr-hidden> ha scritto:
>
> > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 05:18 +0100, luigi curzi
> > wrote:
> > > > Low latency is necessary if you are using a midi
> > controller to drive a
> > > > synth on the PC, or if you are recording and you
> > need to do software
> > > > monitoring.
> > > >
> > >
> > > with software monitoring do you mean the recording
> > from software
> > > sources?
> >
> > Partly. I mean when you have an audio signal that
> > runs into the
> > soundcard, through jackd and the audio apps, and out
> > again through the
> > audio card. For example if you have a vocalist
> > singing into a microphone
> > to a track that's already been recorded. The
> > vocalist will then hear a
> > delay between what she or he sings and what she or
> > he hears in the
> > headphones. Which some people find very distracting.
> >
> > In the above case you'd want to go for the lowest
> > latency your system
> > can handle. Otherwise using high latency setting for
> > jack would get rid
> > of the clicks and pops.
> >
>
> so, if i want to use only my pc without external
> instruments or vocalist (:-)) i don't need a very low
> latency, is it?

Pretty much. Try out high latency settings, and unless you find that
there are annoying delays you should be fine.

bye
John

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Received on Mon Jan 14 12:15:03 2008