On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:57:32 -0600 (CST) "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabriel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Arnold Krille wrote: > > > So if you know your sound has a (constant) delay before its heard, why don't > > you anticipate for that and just make your sound earlier? > > > > It works, for centuries organists have done so. > > But to be fair: I use my synths at <20ms. > > <grumpy_old_man> > In _MY_ day, we didn't have these fancy LOW-LATENCY > com-PEUT-ers. We listened for the person in the next > village beating on a LOG... and if we wanted to play with > them, we beat on our OWN log. And nothing ever lined up and > it sounded god-aweful, and WE LIKED IT! WE LOVED IT! > </grumpy_old_man> > > :-) > > -gabriel ###king wimps! We made music by sticking thorns in sabre-toothed tigers. Pitch and volume were determined by just where you stick the thorn ;) > p.s. For centuries, organists haven't kept steady tempo, > either.... Nobody ever told them they had to! Quote: 'You can easily tell which organists can play widors toccata - they don't fall off the bench' -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
