What is latency?
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- KVRer
- 10 posts since 27 Jul, 2004
I'm a newbie
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
Google is your friend. Try it.
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Robert Randolph Robert Randolph https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7328 - KVRAF
- 2226 posts since 25 May, 2003 from Saint Petersburg, Florida
The time between a data being sent, and received.
in this case the time between a sound being sent from the source, to your ears. This means from hard-drive (or instrument, mic, cable, pre's converters etc...), through audio software, through plugins, through summing/mixing, through the coverters, amplifiers, speakers, air, your ears and finally to your brain.
It's amazing that even if you can perceive the latency, how fast it all happens! You can normally perceive latencies anywhere from 2-10ms. This doesnt mean however that you can perform well with those latencies. Depending on how you're trained on your instrument and your comfort zone, from 2-20ms can be good enough for performance.
in this case the time between a sound being sent from the source, to your ears. This means from hard-drive (or instrument, mic, cable, pre's converters etc...), through audio software, through plugins, through summing/mixing, through the coverters, amplifiers, speakers, air, your ears and finally to your brain.
It's amazing that even if you can perceive the latency, how fast it all happens! You can normally perceive latencies anywhere from 2-10ms. This doesnt mean however that you can perform well with those latencies. Depending on how you're trained on your instrument and your comfort zone, from 2-20ms can be good enough for performance.
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- KVRAF
- 6937 posts since 4 Jun, 2004 from Utrecht, Holland
"Latency" is the delay time between a signal leaving your music software and the actual arrival on the line-out/headphone jack. Or the other way around, from input to the software.
It is caused by several buffers in your music software, the soundcard drivers, etc. Such a buffer is continuously filled with samples, but has to be full until it is transported to the next component. So the smaller the buffer the lower the latency.
You may notice the latency when for instance you do multitrack recording. The notes you play end up being recorded slightly later than you actually played them. Until 15ms it's not too bad but with 50ms is very annoying.
Hope this explains it for you.
It is caused by several buffers in your music software, the soundcard drivers, etc. Such a buffer is continuously filled with samples, but has to be full until it is transported to the next component. So the smaller the buffer the lower the latency.
You may notice the latency when for instance you do multitrack recording. The notes you play end up being recorded slightly later than you actually played them. Until 15ms it's not too bad but with 50ms is very annoying.
Hope this explains it for you.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111294 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
its what i usually am for workency 
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- KVRist
- 55 posts since 13 Jun, 2004 from UK
Ha ha. Did you .hehe. did you see what he did there. he he. Did you get it? hehee.vurt wrote:its what i usually am for workency
Because, because, hehe, its got 'late' in it haha. and he made it sound haha like it was...oh I forget.
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- KVRAF
- 3266 posts since 22 Sep, 2003 from under the sun
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however preliminaries are a good thing.