Re: Minimum reasonable latency Was: Re: ZynAddSubFX was: Re: [linux-audio-dev] some new soundfiles on-line

From: Tim Goetze <tim@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 15:44:10 EEST

[Jens M Andreasen]
> A "synthesist" (that's my scenario), who can't hear *anything* before
> the end of the pipe, would be very sensitive to jitter (the deviation,
> or "sloppyness", between triggers and actual sound) and would therefore
> require the smallest of small buffers.

Trading jitter for constant latency can work well for some, too.

Unfortunately the increasingly popular MIDI over USB connections
already introduce a millisecond of jitter, so if you're already
working at a blocksize of 64 at 44.1 or faster it's not worth the
effort.

Cheers, Tim
Received on Thu May 19 16:15:08 2005

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