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Press a key on a real piano - instant sound. At 10ms (and possibly less), you will start to notice the lag and it will affect your performance. https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-much-latency...
Nope, you sit 3 or 4 feet from the soundboard in a piano, so the latency is around 3 or 4ms.
It’s a Linux distribution with real-time kernel. Here’s a download link if anybody is interested: https://github.com/elk-audio/elk-pi/releases
When I read things like this, I really wish BeOS, with its already pervasively multithreaded kernel, had won the audio OS wars. _Le sigh._
Oh well.
"With Elk hardware companies can move away from dedicated chips and use general purpose ARM and x86 CPUs without any compromise in terms of latency, performance and scalability." Less diversity decreases competition and overall technological development. In the 1980s, some OS developers actually blamed Unix for stalling the progress of OS research. Wouldn't a world of Arm based synthesizer be kind of stagnant? Sure y…
I work in that industry; at this point most of the big players are on either ARM SOCs or SHARC, with a few plucky folks basically making x86_64 servers. Once performance is comparable for the workload, ARM-based synthesizers aren't inherently any more stagnant than DSP-based synths, in the same way that ARM-based tablet apps aren't necessarily stagnant; if anything, the freedom from crappy compiler lock-in, incompreh…
I mean stuff like Zephyr, NuttX, mbed, RTOS, Azure RTOS.
> 1ms round-trip Ooh, a rare latency claim that actually specifies which type of latency they mean! One millisecond round-trip latency, if true in practice, is quite impressive. I'm going to continue reading now... :)
I’ve never understood the latency requirement for professional gear, are you able to articulate why there’s a need for lower latency than average consumer gear?
No one cares if your pad sounds are a little late, but variable latency absolutely destroys drum grooves, sequenced electronica, and the kind of super-precise playing needed for good classical piano.
You might think most people can't hear the difference. And they can't. But - as with other audio production values - they can feel the difference. Tiny variations in timing are the bedrock of many kinds of musical expression. If they're not there, people notice.
Although things may change a bit with the arrival of Apple M1 systems, the marketing mentions of VST in this context are fairly weasely. For users, good look finding more than a couple of plugin developers that make their plugins available for (a) a Linux based system AND (b) the ARM architecture. For developers, VST is just an SDK, and doesn't require OS support in any meaningful way. So sure, if you want to create…
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Arch wiki is an amazing source of practical information. It's like graybeard forums but distilled into a readable text. My last laptop ran Mint distro; whenever I searched around for HW issues it was always their wiki, fully stocked with useful info and steps how to fix stuff.
"graybeard forums" = ?
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Three things come to mind-- 1. If you strum the strings of a guitar and want your laptop to make you sound like Jimmy Hendrix, it had better output sound quickly enough that you perceive it happening "immediately." (I.e., it should sound and feel just like an electric guitar that's hooked up to an amp.) 2. Such a laptop like the one above had better make you sound like Jimmy Hendrix for every moment you are playing t…
what does the "hungry hippos" metaphor/idiom stand for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Hungry_Hippos didn't help