Timing and Synchronisation for Sequencer Applications

Latency

•Small constant delay is never a problem

–Headphones instead of speakers at 3m distance saves you 9ms.

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•Relative low latency desired for feedback to musician or engineer

–How much is good enough?

–Latency for pneumatic organ players

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•High Latency peaks are very Bad!!


	In my opinion too many people only focus on the latency for their audio application. It is nice to get sub 1ms latency but does it mean? Using headphones instead of sitting 3m away from your monitors does also instantly improve your latency with a whopping 9 ms.
	If latency is extremely large this will result is poor usability for the performing artist. Remember that the human brain seems to capable to manage this since people can play pneumatic or electro-pneumatic church organs, which have very high latency!