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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by magicalhippo on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:42PM (#26059595)
As a non-musician, how much latency can be tolerated?

Personally I can easily notice >50ms audio desync in videos, but I imagine one might be more latency sensitive due to the tactile feedback?

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by loa_in_ on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:18PM (#26060388)
You aim for 3ms, 10ms can be described as annoying. 50ms is really bad.

In reality you either move to analog processing when you reach that much delay or design your creative workflow around it (learn not to expect immediate feedback) so you move towards offline processing.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by jcelerier on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:36AM (#26062077)
As a guitarist, 8-10ms of processing latency is playable but feels somewhat strange especially if you compare to plugging the guitar right into a tube amp. 2ms is entirely indistinguishable for me.

And, with the "normal" system APIs (except CoreAudio which fares a bit better) it's pretty hard to get below 15ms in my experience, even with beefy computers.

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