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

[Lorenzo]

> i asked about this issue on the ardour forum and paul davis (the main
> developer of ardour) gave this answer:
>
> All JACK clients can report latency on their ports. Pd is not reporting
> latency correctly on its JACK ports. If it did, the result of the send
> via Pd would still be aligned correctly.
>
> To correct this you need to use an "artificial latency" plugin (in the
> SWH plugin set) to fake the latency that Pd is adding. There's no way to
> know what the number is so you just have to play with it until ardour
> does the right thing. Oh, and you need to know one other thing: Ardour
> only does latency updates at each transport stop, so you need to
> adjust/stop/roll/adjust/stop as necessary.
>
>
> furthermore, there seems to be latency correction for other jack apps,
> if they report it.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> is the jack implementation  in pd reporting the latency?
>   

Thanks for taking the time for this.

Lorenzo