[PD] 0 latency

Damian Stewart damian at frey.co.nz
Sat Dec 27 19:48:42 CET 2008


Jaime Oliver wrote:
> 15-20 ms should be perceptually enough (visual-sound or motor-sound), 
> some people put it at 40, but a percussionist would definitely notice 
> it. I suppose one has to learn it and make it part of the instrument, 
> latency in an acoustic piano can be as high as 100ms...
>  
> But the problem is that the pad probably makes a noise, and the 
> perceptual latency for two sounds to fuse is not more than 5ms...
>  
> J

i've been playing hands-on live electroacoustic music with 50ms latency for 
about three years now. my ears/hands have just adjusted to the delay - if i 
want something to happen at a particular time, i just start moving 50ms 
earlier...

d

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