[ubuntu-studio-devel] jack_control

[ttoine]

I agree with Len, with external monitoring, you don't need low latency when
recording and mixing with Ardour. At all. I do that all the time.

About virtual instruments, you can play with up to 8 or 10 ms of latency,
your brain is made for that: in real life,  imagine you are on a big stage
and your guitar amp is 4 or 5 meters away from you ? (I let you compute
that)

Even playing the piano, mechanics introduce a short latency between the
time you press a key, and the time the hammer hit the string.

Some digital synth (roland, clavia) and effects (tc) have a latency up to 4
ms. And it is ok to play them, as long as you don't chain too many of them.

By the way, I don't use virtual instruments. But I used to set up an old
1ghz celeron laptop as a live effect for my bass, with a basic presonus USB
sound card. Ubuntu Studio was just working great.

My 2 cents ;-)
Le 2 juin 2015 02:46, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> a écrit :

> On Mon, 1 Jun 2015, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>
>  Ubuntu Studio is still used by some musicians but to be honest: with
>> specs as you described them and consequently more than 20 ms latency
>> you cannot record multitrack and you cannot play virtual instruments.
>>
>
> Less than 1ms when I want it with PA off. and jack set to 16/2 on Ubuntu
> Studio with no xruns. Very usable.
>
> I meantioned using 20ms latency was usable with external monitoring, not
> that it was the best that could be done with UbuntuStudio. Yes you can
> multitrack very well with high latency with external monitoring, however
> there is really no need to do that as UbuntuStudio will do well at lower
> latencies even with 12 or more tracks with jack at 32/2 (which is where it
> happens to be just now with 17 tracks). I have found that 128/2 is on the
> edge of useful with for virtual instruments or live effects, but I can run
> 16/2 with guitarix and no drop outs for that.
>
> You come across as a troll (without any real and useful info).
>
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