[LAU] audio latency question

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Sun Mar 20 20:26:17 UTC 2011


On 20/03/11 18:38, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> a drummer will get very grumpy indeed over latencies in the 10ms 
> range. (i understand your use of the term to mean "time it takes for 
> the sound to come out after the drummer has hit the pad").
>
> you should aim for 2ms or less, which takes considerable effort and a 
> very good sound card.
>

P.S. I have just found out that I can use higher than standard data 
rates on the arduino's hardware serial to get the data off the board, 
which is where i thought the bottleneck was going to be, so I should 
hopefully be able to get something like 1ms latency in this part of the 
system.

( http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1235580746 )


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