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

> Having said that a cathedral organist has to cope with horrendous
> 'latency'. Partly due to the organ mechanics, but also due to the
> variable 'response time' of the choir!
>

Rather true. Even fully electrically-actuated pipe organs have to fill
the big pipes with pressure and vibration, and I have heard that the
older ones with mechanical actions have more than one-tenth-second
latency sometimes, even when well-kept. And certainly working with a
choir is different :-) It is rather rare now in the USA to find a real
pipe-organ accompanying a real choir. For a while I was primary
instrumentalist in a church which could have done it; I floated the idea
of trying, and the response was akin to a gentle horror :-) It takes a
patience which, at least in the U.S.A., has become sadly quite rare.

J.E.B.
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Received on Sat Dec 12 20:15:06 2009