Re: RME & latency discussion
Re: RME & latency discussion
- Subject: Re: RME & latency discussion
- From: Herbie Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:29:46 -0400
On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:55 AM, William Stewart wrote:
Great explanations. They give an accurate picture.
Is this good enough? Remember, sound takes 1msec to travel a foot,
so the latency for you to hear my guitar playing if you are 20 feet
away from my speaker is 20msecs, an orchestra has at least 50msecs
of latency from side to side...etc..., enough for one day I think.
>From what I've read here and there and from my personal experience
the latency "problem" is not relevant for people listening to the
music but for the musician doing self-monitoring. After all, a
couple of ms is within an acceptable delay range for most of us (if
not all of us). However, some singers have been reporting "phase"
problems between sound coming from their throat and sound coming
from the output of the DAW. When the instrument produces sharp
attack (e.g. a hard strike on a guitar string) then you've got a
disturbing impression of uncorrelated sound and hand movement. I'm
perfectly aware that going under the 64 samples buffer size is risky
and therefore maybe that musicians should accept that
self-monitoring using DAWs has some limitations and cannot
completely replace the direct monitoring.
Philippe
I have had situations where performers were annoyed with the latency
in Pro Tools TDM. This is especially true when monitoring vocals via
headphones, because you get phase cancelation in the air cavities in
your head. it's not even conclusive that less latency is even better
(unless you can make it zero latency). Sometimes a long delay
actually helps!
The ONLY way to deal with monitoring in a way that will keep anybody
happy is to use an analog mixer for the monitoring.
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