Well from a musicians point of view (me) everything above 8ms is not very playable. This is obvioulsy only true if the generated sound has instant attack, otherwise latency does not really matter :-) On Jul 27, 2012 2:30 PM, "Charles Henry" czhenry@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com wrote:
10ms is around the human-ear latency, so anything at that level or below should be good enough for guitar/drumming (this is anectodtal... Iḿ not
sure
the exact science behind it). Ive never had a problem with my friends
older
13" MacBook Pro used as a guitar FX box.
Tyler
I believe the phenomenon you're describing is called "loudness integration." However, I can't find any good citations available on the internet to back it up--here's something that *might* be applicable: Plack, C. J., & Moore, B. C. J. (1990). Temporal window shape as a function of frequency and level. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87, 2178–2187.
The basic idea is that the cochlea is fed a series of waves and a particular place on the basilar membrane resonates most for a given frequency. The instantaneous power delivered is low, so the power needs to accumulate before the stimulus is strong enough to be perceived.
As I recall, it takes about 20 ms to reach a steady state, but it's been a while since I've read anything about it.
Chuck
Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list