[LAU] Value of low-latency in audio?

[david]

fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:24:22AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
>> Indeed. I think the ll issue is of real importance when recording. At 64 
>> ms multitrack recording/playback is a not very satisfying experience.
> 
> As long as you are recording sources that originate outside
> the computer (i.e. soundcard inputs, either mics or instruments)
> there *should* be no problem. The DAW needs to shift any 
> material recorded while listening to existing tracks by
> the round-trip latency, and for a punch in/out be a bit
> clever with monitoring. All this can be automatic, and
> if done correctly a player will *never* notice any delay.

Musicbox won't be recording anything. My church band has a 20-channel 
Firewire device that records all of that to a separate laptop that sits 
with the sound board and doesn't have to do anything else.

(Although I might try recording stereo outs from the soundboard once, 
just to see how it goes. But wouldn't be using it as a synth at that time.)

> Things get more hairy when using sources generated on the
> PC. But then just playing them with 64ms latency is the
> real problem.

Yah, I'll have to see how it goes.

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David
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