Re: RME & latency discussion
Re: RME & latency discussion
- Subject: Re: RME & latency discussion
- From: Dennis Gunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:57:29 +0900
On Oct 16, 2004, at 12:29 AM, John Stiles wrote:
On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Dennis Gunn wrote:
The ONLY way to deal with monitoring in a way that will keep anybody
happy is to use an analog mixer for the monitoring.
I guess you me "everybody" but, that way is no good either. The
market is moving relentlessly toward plugin processing and there are
things I use on live inputs that I don't think are even available
analog devices.
The way to make DAW users happy is to get the latency right.
By "right," do you really mean "zero" here? Don't hold your
breath--the digital path will always have some latency. It may be down
to a handful of samples for each connection, but it will never go away
entirely, no matter how fast computers get and how smart the software
engineers are.
I mean what William said he believed was possible I guess and get it
down to the single digit range.
From the very beginning of this thread I have been totally consistent
in what I have asked for and that is that the safety offset be reduced.
So I don't really know why you would ask that.
I never said anything like I thought it had to be "absolutely zero or
else" which is what it looks like you think I have said somewhere.
The way it is right now this aspect of performance just plain awful
compared to the competition on the windows side and that is not a very
good situation to be in when you are fighting to regain a market share
from a competitor that is basically blowing you away in sales. I mean
one has to face the rather bleak reality for apple that there are about
250000 logic users world wide up against (I have been told) about 2.5
million cubase users on windows world wide. With those kind of numbers
you do not want to be trailing in such a fundamental performance area
as latency by a huge margin.
If latency on a Windows machine is 190 samples and 198 on an Apple who
cares?
But if it is 190 on a windows and 322 on an Apple with the same
setting, it is quite likely it will cost you sales.
In any case William has acknowledged the problem and has indicated that
he seems to think resolution is feasible. That makes me happy.
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