[PD] some naive questions

[Martin Peach]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> PSPunch hat gesagt: // PSPunch wrote:
> 
>> I've never fully understood the "delay" parameter either..
>>
>> Assuming you set the block size to 128 and working at 44.1kHz,
>> one block is 2.9 msec long.
>>
>> In this case, is setting the delay to 3msec and 4msec the same?
> 
> The "delay" in the audio settings dialog is the soundcard buffer duration, it
> is not directly related to Pd's internal blocksize.
> 
> You can set the "delay" with the -audiobuf command line option, and the
> blocksize with -blocksize.
> 

So if I set the blocksize in gjackctl, does that override Pd's "delay" 
or does that relate to the difficulty of getting them to sync up sometimes?

Martin