[PD] latency issue

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Oct 18 17:03:58 CEST 2009


On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Justin Glenn Smith wrote:

> Also, many commercial audio apps misreport latency; for example a large 
> number, if not most of them, report only the latency introduced by the 
> app itself, which is in their case actually cumulative with the latency 
> introduced with the OS drivers and the latency inherant in the DAC / ADC 
> of the card itself. With jack, at least, you are getting a much more 
> accurate picture of the latency.

Yet Jack still expects you to be responsible for adding 1 ms of latency 
per foot of air that the sound has to go through, in and out.

And then, there are all sorts of brain latencies.

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