[PD-ot] how low (latency) can you go?

Tim Blechmann tim at klingt.org
Sat Dec 16 19:22:43 CET 2006


On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 19:14 +0100, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> On 2006-12-16 19:02:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> appears to 
> have written:
> > And always, when talking about latency, I feel the need to point out the 
> > speed of sound: 340 m/s or .34 m/ms.  So if your speakers are 2m away 
> > from you, that's 6ms of latency.  You could spend days tweaking your 
> > machine to get 3ms less latency, or you could move 1m closer to your 
> > speakers.  Puts things into perspective...
> 
> indeed 'tis true.  but 5ms vs. 10ms makes a major subjective/perceptual 
> difference if we're talking about playing an electro-acoustic instrument 
> in and getting a munged signal out...

a latency of 25ms could be used to simulate some early reflections ;)

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