Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] RFC: API for audio across network - inter-host audio routing
From: dgm4 (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 18:59:15 EEST
Lamar Owen wrote:
>On Thursday 13 June 2002 09:29 am, Charlieb wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Steve Harris wrote:
>>
>>>MAS works over LANs, and should be capable of 10ms latency, which isn't
>>>very low by BTW. You certainly can't play an instrument with 10ms
>>>latency.
>>>
>
>>Nonsense! What about tubas ?
>>I admit a guitar would feel pretty awful w/ 10 ms latency, an oboe or
>>trumpet only fells a little "slow to speak", and a Tuba , well, that
>>would be an exceptionally responsive low brass...
>>
>
>French Horn. Its bore is as long as a tuba's. I have played horn before, and
>there is a definite, barely detectable delay between initiation of the note
>and the perception of the note (which is both by ear and by hand in the case
>of the horn). The long bore is one reason the horn's attack is quite mellow.
>
To say nothing of pipe organs, where the latency can be nearly half a
second (!) in a large church.
-dgm
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