I think this might depend on the soundcard, but I get very good low-latency
with ALSA directly or even portaudio. Have you tried using -b and -B to
set your buffer sizes?

Jack is good, but as far as I know you should get similar latency performance
just going directly to the soundcard.

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@googlemail.com>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:57 am
Subject: [Csnd] jack needed for csound?
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk

> Dear community,
> after I've updated my system to ubuntu Jaunty-Jackaploe, I have larger
> latency times, when I play with realtime-midi in csound.
> I hope I can erase this problem. One of the first things, I want to
> try is to check, if I can better latency times, when I change the
> settings in Jack.
> Or does this have no influences on csound?
> Thanks for any help
> Stefan
> 
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Dr Victor Lazzarini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Music,National University of Ireland, Maynooth