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Re:Open-Source Tools for Working With Video and Audio by shin_lao on Thursday July 23, 2009 @12:52PM (#719902)
Low latency is interesting when you're tweaking the VST in real time and want to see how it affects your recording. With enough CPU power and a good audio card, this is doable even with a complex stack of effects.

I guess it could also be important when using external processors.

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Re:Open-Source Tools for Working With Video and Audio by enqk on Friday July 24, 2009 @05:41AM (#721207)
Yet this has nothing to do with low latency. You can have a decent realtime preview with ~120ms latency, which I use as a limit for instantaneousness.

Low-latency is good for performance, as in, for performing live. And that's it (Then again ask any church organ player about latency.. He has ton of it)

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