[LAU] Value of low-latency in audio?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

> Having said that a cathedral organist has to cope with horrendous
> 'latency'. Partly due to the organ mechanics, but also due to the
> variable 'response time' of the choir!
>    

Rather true.  Even fully electrically-actuated pipe organs have to fill 
the big pipes with pressure and vibration, and I have heard that the 
older ones with mechanical actions have more than one-tenth-second 
latency sometimes, even when well-kept.  And certainly working with a 
choir is different :-)  It is rather rare now in the USA to find a real 
pipe-organ accompanying a real choir.  For a while I was primary 
instrumentalist in a church which could have done it; I floated the idea 
of trying, and the response was akin to a gentle horror :-)  It takes a 
patience which, at least in the U.S.A., has become sadly quite rare.

J.E.B.