Comments on: What is latency? (and why you don’t care) http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/ Make better recordings in your home studio. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:04:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: rich http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-69560 rich Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:31 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-69560 @roy : yes, it should match the metronome. There seems to be a known bug in adobe audition. Search on the adobe cs5.5 forums for "How to make latency compensation work?". You should join us there and help us fix this. @roy : yes, it should match the metronome. There seems to be a known bug in adobe audition. Search on the adobe cs5.5 forums for “How to make latency compensation work?”. You should join us there and help us fix this.

]]> By: andkon http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-24807 andkon Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:06:53 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-24807 to experience this first hand, set up a delay effect on your sound with 60ms or so of delay time and 100% wet. Try to play anything with a constant time. to experience this first hand, set up a delay effect on your sound with 60ms or so of delay time and 100% wet. Try to play anything with a constant time.

]]> By: Riley http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-24183 Riley Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:13:38 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-24183 Really solid article, good explanation, and very easy to understand! Thank you sir! Really solid article, good explanation, and very easy to understand!

Thank you sir!

]]> By: roy http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-20364 roy Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:04:04 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-20364 Hi, very nice article. That give me hope. By the way do you know if adobe audition cs5 or 3 does this "automatic latency compensation" because for what I could gather It does not. I use a Lexicon Alpha interface and I always find myself moving a lilte bit to the left the track I just recorded in Adobe Audition. Even with the minimun latency configuration. I'm starting to think that I should use Cubase. In adobe audition If make a track like a metronome 4 x 4 and I rercord that with and Mic the recorded track alwas get a delay, I understand sound velocity but I think it is to much. Should the track recorde match perfectly the orginal metronome track? Hi, very nice article. That give me hope. By the way do you know if adobe audition cs5 or 3 does this “automatic latency compensation” because for what I could gather It does not. I use a Lexicon Alpha interface and I always find myself moving a lilte bit to the left the track I just recorded in Adobe Audition. Even with the minimun latency configuration. I’m starting to think that I should use Cubase. In adobe audition If make a track like a metronome 4 x 4 and I rercord that with and Mic the recorded track alwas get a delay, I understand sound velocity but I think it is to much. Should the track recorde match perfectly the orginal metronome track?

]]> By: What is latency_msec=5? http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-11548 What is latency_msec=5? Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:23:30 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-11548 [...] This explanation might help you understand latency. [...] [...] This explanation might help you understand latency. [...]

]]> By: bvesco http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-8589 bvesco Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:41:57 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-8589 I certainly agree that a person who has a requirement that they play "live" through a soft synth must have a low latency environment. I disagree that every person using a computer to record since 1986 has relied on soft synths as the core of their workflow. I know plenty of people mixing on small to very large projects that are not using soft synths to play "live" in the studio. Any projects I need a soft synth on are served perfectly by tracking and monitoring with a hardware synth, recording the midi, then wiring up and tweaking the soft synth after tracking is complete. Latency does not matter in this situation. You are entitled to your opinion for certain, but it is a fact that low latency is really only important to people who insist on playing "live" through a soft synth. If you are one of those people then you need low latency. The rest of us do not. To the low latency kool-aid I say, "pass!" I certainly agree that a person who has a requirement that they play “live” through a soft synth must have a low latency environment. I disagree that every person using a computer to record since 1986 has relied on soft synths as the core of their workflow. I know plenty of people mixing on small to very large projects that are not using soft synths to play “live” in the studio. Any projects I need a soft synth on are served perfectly by tracking and monitoring with a hardware synth, recording the midi, then wiring up and tweaking the soft synth after tracking is complete. Latency does not matter in this situation. You are entitled to your opinion for certain, but it is a fact that low latency is really only important to people who insist on playing “live” through a soft synth. If you are one of those people then you need low latency. The rest of us do not. To the low latency kool-aid I say, “pass!”

]]> By: Smith http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-2/#comment-8556 Smith Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:20:07 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-8556 Mr. Vesco how can you tell people that latency is not important?! This is worst of your articles and that statement is just RIDICULOUS. People wouldn't spend hundreds euro's on RME interfaces that allow for as alow as 14 samples latency if it weren't important. You cannot underestimate soft synths these days. Maybe you only record drums and guitars, but believe me - most pro musicians these days use software processing and for such people latency is kinda crucial. So I'm sorry but WE DO CARE ABOUT LATENCY, and you should finally notice that it isn't 1985 anymore. Mr. Vesco how can you tell people that latency is not important?! This is worst of your articles and that statement is just RIDICULOUS. People wouldn’t spend hundreds euro’s on RME interfaces that allow for as alow as 14 samples latency if it weren’t important. You cannot underestimate soft synths these days. Maybe you only record drums and guitars, but believe me – most pro musicians these days use software processing and for such people latency is kinda crucial. So I’m sorry but WE DO CARE ABOUT LATENCY, and you should finally notice that it isn’t 1985 anymore.

]]> By: bvesco http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-1/#comment-6205 bvesco Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:08:12 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-6205 Who told you to keep your latency that low and why? If you're not using soft-synths then your latency does NOT matter at all. 55ms is fine for audio recording and mixing without soft-synths. Who told you to keep your latency that low and why? If you’re not using soft-synths then your latency does NOT matter at all. 55ms is fine for audio recording and mixing without soft-synths.

]]> By: Yoel http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-1/#comment-6204 Yoel Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:03:49 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-6204 Hey, I'm using Live 8.0.1 and I've been told to keep my Overal Latency under 12 ms. I'm using the audio driver of my soundcard (Alesis IO2), simply because I always endure cracks, pops and even interruptions in my recordings when using Asio4All... However, in order not to make my guitarsound go buzzing and become distorted in Live I have to adjust the buffer size to about 400(..). It says my overall latency is now 55,8 ms. The Input latency is around 5ms and the output latency is 50ms (!). Should I worry about the 'output' latency? And how could I adjust this amount? A bit of long story, but I hope you understand my problem (at least, I guess it's a problem). Greetings from Holland, Yoel Hey, I’m using Live 8.0.1 and I’ve been told to keep my Overal Latency under 12 ms. I’m using the audio driver of my soundcard (Alesis IO2), simply because I always endure cracks, pops and even interruptions in my recordings when using Asio4All…

However, in order not to make my guitarsound go buzzing and become distorted in Live I have to adjust the buffer size to about 400(..). It says my overall latency is now 55,8 ms. The Input latency is around 5ms and the output latency is 50ms (!).

Should I worry about the ‘output’ latency? And how could I adjust this amount?

A bit of long story, but I hope you understand my problem (at least, I guess it’s a problem).

Greetings from Holland,
Yoel

]]> By: Jason Rivera http://www.benvesco.com/blog/the-digital-age/2008/latency/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Jason Rivera Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:29:02 +0000 http://benvesco.com/tonemonster/the-digital-age/2008/latency/#comment-4618 being a computer programmer myself makes me very proud of my job.~; being a computer programmer myself makes me very proud of my job.~;

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