On Dec 16, 2006, at 8:38 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Apple puts good audio hardware in their laptops. I can get 14ms of latency on Mac OS X with Pd without really trying (I just set it to 14ms). I can get down to 11ms if I don't mind clicks when I operate the menus and switch to other applications.
as always when it comes to latency and people tell numbers, i have to ask my question: have you measured this? how? or was it just "putting a number somewhere and assuming that it's the real latency"? how much load do your settings allow?
Yes, its true, I am too lazy to do an actual measurement. I am just talking about the buffer setting. For what I do, I don't really need much lower.
And always, when talking about latency, I feel the need to point out the speed of sound: 340 m/s or .34 m/ms. So if your speakers are 2m away from you, that's 6ms of latency. You could spend days tweaking your machine to get 3ms less latency, or you could move 1m closer to your speakers. Puts things into perspective...
.hc
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