[LAU] Latency issues (Re: Arch Wiki Professional_audio)

[Hermann Meyer]

Am 31.03.2017 um 16:32 schrieb Peter:
> Dear All,
>
> while I'm not an audio professional, I found the (emotional) 
> discussion on the
> latencies quiet interesting.
>
> Am 31.03.2017 um 15:49 schrieb Len Ovens:
>
>> That is exactly it. When playing bass, I find that once I am 30 feet 
>> away from the rest of the band
>
> 30 feet?, wouldn't that be on >80ms latency. If that's the order where 
> 'disturbing' starts then
> I find that number interesting, as (if I remember correctly) that's 
> the fastest scale a human can react.
>
> Which brings me to my questions. It might be  little bit of topic, but 
> does someone know numbers on the
> time it takes between wanting to pay a tune, playing it (e.g. on a 
> bass) and the time it takes until one
> realizes, that the tone is played? I think neurons switching time is 
> of the order of 1 ms, so the physical
> feedback can take pretty long. Signal velocity in nerves is also not 
> too high. But brain might be cheating
> in assuming having played. Is anything known concerning the latencies 
> of a musician?
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>

For me, disturbing starts at a frame rate of 256/2 which means round 
about 10ms. That is the point were it seems that my brain starts to lock 
ahead. With a setting of 128/2 (5ms) I've no problems at all. I'm not 
sure, if I'm able to notice lower latency at all.