Hi,
When I start up pd My version of portaudio tells me the latency I have: 46ms I have built a patch that records sound input on a tempo and I have noticed that my sound takes some times to get into pd. I have always thought that latency was the time the sound would put to get in then out but I thought that the sound would put something like 0.005ms to get in and a file played from the HD would put the same. So as I did not care about direct monitoring stuff, I did not mind. Recently I have recorded samples on a tempo generated in pd and when playing the samples back I have noticed that my samples were not synchronized with the tempo. Can somebody confirm me that the signal get some significant time before getting into pd ? Or else ? Also, I have then tried to play my samples a bit earlier than the tempo something like 89ms and then my samples where back on tempo. But 2 days later that 89ms became 130ms. (I used different patches) Can the in/output latency be variable according to the CPU I use ? Humm...
Alex