[LAU] Value of low-latency in audio?

[david]

Nope. Don't even know what that is. I know what beatboxing is, but not 
"beatboxing processing."

I much prefer real drummers for percussive sounds.

I didn't say I thought 64msec was fine, but that it works and I was just 
wondering what value going lower would be. I've been able to get it 
lower (down to 16ms) but without an RT kernel xruns made it pretty useless.

When performing live, *when* I hear a sound is much more important than 
when it originated. I think a musician's brain/neural processing quickly 
picks up the various latencies (distance between the different 
musicians) and adjusts quite well.

Dan S wrote:
> If you think 64ms is fine then you're probably not doing live
> beatboxing processing ;). For percussive sounds especially, the
> latency is immediately obvious to a live musician - for many
> performers a high latency also manifests in a tendency to slow your
> tempo down (lagging your performance to keep in sync with the lagged
> output)...
> 
> Dan
> 
> 2009/12/12 david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>:
>> Just wondering. Without an RT kernel here, my 2 laptops seem to run my
>> simple audio needs pretty well at 64msec latency. At least, it's never
>> bothered my playing along with computer-generated audio.
>>
>> I don't do any heavy-duty audio work here. Once I tried Jackrack, put
>> one effect in it (that worked) or one amplifer (that worked) but trying
>> to use both didn't. But I don't know if that had so much to do with
>> latency or lack of RT kernel as with a smallish amount of memory and an
>> underpowered processor driving the whole thing. Now that I''ve upgraded
>> the memory on both laptops, perhaps it would work? On musicbox, with
>> 512MB, using a single good quality (larger) soundfont was enough to
>> cause problems. With 768MB in it, it works without problems.
>>
>> I see people on the list running much lower latencies than 64msec, and
>> seemingly trying to get even lower ...
>>
>> So, just wondering.


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