Subject: Re: [LAU] Value of low-latency in audio?

From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabriel@...> · Date: Friday, December 18, 2009 - 1:57 pm

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Arnold Krille wrote:
> So if you know your sound has a (constant) delay before its heard, why don't

quoted text> you anticipate for that and just make your sound earlier?

>

> It works, for centuries organists have done so.

> But to be fair: I use my synths at <20ms.
In _MY_ day, we didn't have these fancy LOW-LATENCY

com-PEUT-ers.  We listened for the person in the next

village beating on a LOG... and if we wanted to play with

them, we beat on our OWN log.  And nothing ever lined up and

it sounded god-aweful, and WE LIKED IT!  WE LOVED IT!
:-)
-gabriel
p.s. For centuries, organists haven't kept steady tempo,

either....

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