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Re:Lessons learnt building a real-time audio application in ... by PhunkyPhil on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:19PM (#41490073)
+1. In Ableton on Windows you can get your latency down to ~40ms without a dedicated sound card using ASIO. Mac's drivers are even better with sub ~20 ms on my m2 pro IIRC.
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Re:Lessons learnt building a real-time audio application in ... by jancsika on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:14PM (#41493104)
> Mac's drivers are even better with sub ~20 ms on my m2 pro IIRC.

Just to be clear that you're measuring apples to apples with OP:

You are measuring less than 40ms roundtrip latency on your Mac. Is this correct?

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Re:Lessons learnt building a real-time audio application in ... by emptiestplace on Thursday September 12, 2024 @05:04PM (#41525560)
You seem surprised, but any sort of live production requires this. Check out SonoBus, it achieves adequately low end-to-end latency even with network delays in the mix.
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Re:Lessons learnt building a real-time audio application in ... by shannonclaude on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:39PM (#41490321)
+1 to the comments here. Part of the issue here is running these applications in Python. It's not really optimized to handle these loads and do DSP-based compute efficiently.
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