[PD] Advice on how to handle latency in linux with Pd, jack and ardour

[Simon Iten]

afaik all the latency introduced by jack is automatically corrected by
ardour. so the latency you observe when rerecording in ardour comes from
puredata only. there's not much you can do about this, except optimizing
your patch. i'm not aware of any manual latency correction in ardour,
but maybe i'm wrong, you should ask this on the ardour forum. you could
start your sourceaudio with a short and loud click sound, that way it's
easier to align later...

regards,

simon

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:50 +0100, Lorenzo wrote:
> I've been lately messing around with a fairly straight forward
> configuration sending audio from ardour to Pd's adc~ (through jack)
> and back to ardour via MIDI (for controlling automations) or audio
> (trivially re-recording Pd's dac~ output).
> 
> In the case of MIDI latency seems no perceptible problem.
> 
> In the case of audio, where the audio is of course 'processed' in the
> Pd patch and eventually 'goes back' to ardour, there is latency. 
> This of course is expected for the nature itself of jack, what I'd
> like to know at this stage is not how to remove latency but the best
> way(s) to handle it (possibly even through raising the latency itself,
> as for the moment I'm not doing real-time), for example if there were
> some way to compensate it automatically (or at least in some 'smart'
> way).
> At the moment the best solution is to manually re-align the slightly
> delayed audio.
> 
> Any input welcome.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Lorenzo.
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