On Friday 12 December 2008 13:12:07 Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: > So here is the result of a wasted hour (hope every number is right), > enjoy. > > Time in Length Note, > ms in m 120 bpm Comments > ======== ======= ======= =========================================== > 1000.00 343.00 1/1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound > 500.00 171.50 1/2 Common delay speed (echo) > 250.00 85.75 1/4 " > 125.00 42.88 1/8 " > 100.00 34.30 > 62.50 21.44 1/16 Distance between people in a big orch. > * 46.40 15.92 Latency value > 31.25 10.72 1/32 Wow, playing fast! > * 23.20 7.96 Latency value > 15.63 5.36 1/64 Playing real music that fast? Get a life! > * 11.60 3.98 Latency value > 10.00 3.43 > 7.81 2.68 1/128 Academic interest (musically) > * 5.80 1.99 Latency value > 5.00 1.72 Dist. from ear to foot > 3.91 1.34 1/256 > * 2.90 0.99 Latency value (64 f/p, 44100, 2 p/b) > 1.96 0.67 1/512 > * 1.45 0.50 Latency, common dist. to monitor > 1.00 0.34 Not an uncommon distance to mic or wife > 0.98 0.33 1/1024 > * 0.73 0.25 Latency value > 0.49 0.17 1/2048 Still of academic interest (musically) An interesting table to put things into perspective. The third column doesn't seem right though. As far as I can see, the actual note values are only half of those in the table (assuming bpm means quarters per minute, of course). Makes the latencies appear a lot less dramatic from a musical point of view :) Dominic _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user