a JACK or ALSA "period" is what almost everything on windows and MacOS
calls a "buffer".
they do not have a term for what ALSA calls "a buffer" (the entire memory
space available for audio i/o, typically mmapped into the using process'
address space)
just about all modern audio interfaces use a double-buffer design. while
the application writes/reads to one buffer, the hardware reads/writes from
the other.
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden>
wrote:
> I'm getting a little confused when comparing our (Jack) buffer sizes with
> those
> discussed on Windows, Mac and general music groups.
>
> These latter never mention periods at all, and it's always frames per
> buffer,
> so when trying to make comparisons should I take buffers as 1:1 or should
> I be
> comparing their buffers to our periods?
>
> --
> Will J Godfrey
> http://www.musically.me.uk
> Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
> Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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