On Tuesday 27 January 2009, James Stone wrote:
[...]
> I think it is possible to get a bit obsessional about getting the
> lowest possible latency. IIRC I think I read that standard hardware
> midi keyboards have a latency of around 10ms, and mechanical organs
> can have even more latency?? So, I think it is more a matter of
> technique.
Depends on what you want to do... As long as the latency is *constant*
(as in, no granularity for MIDI events), a few ms more or less is no
big deal. Use headphones instead of near field monitors, and you cut
some 3 ms right there...!
If you're trying to route the monitor sound for a vocalist through the
computer, latency might be more critical. It feels pretty weird if
the monitor sound is significantly delayed, but I'm not sure exactly
how much one can tolerate.
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