[PD] firewire is dead?

yvan volochine yvan.pd at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 18:11:34 CEST 2012


On 10/16/2012 02:45 PM, patrick wrote:
> good, i was a little bit worried about using a pci-e firewire adapter
> for audio in linux / jack.
>
> about latency, yesterday i used jdelay to measure the round-trip of my
> latency, at 44100 with 128, 3 = 17 ms (jack reports 8 ms). at 96000 i
> get 7 ms, BUT my cpu seems to be working hard and i get glitches. so the
> question is:
>
> with a faster cpu, can i lower the latency?

yes =)

i.e. I have to use huge buffer sizes (so more latency) because of my old 
Intel Core Duo 1.6Ghz (great thinkpad x60 with expresscard slot for my 
FW card though)...

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