hi, from my own experience (hitting keyboard keys, using microphones for voice or drumming) everything above 4 ms is irritating and therefore a pain. marius.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So, my whole point with all this is to say that you really don't need to worry so much about latency to have a very playable computer instrument. So if you want to make art, spend your time making art instead of getting a few less milliseconds of latency in your setup.
If you what to improve the technology, then please publish what you did (blog it, put it on a website, article, magazine, textbook...), and write code and get it out there.
.hc