--- In AudioBox@yahoogroups.com, "jdow" <jdow@...> wrote:
>
> If all the audience is more than 20 ms away from the sound source
> the 10 ms minimum delay of SoundMan would mean nothing. You do want
> the sound from the speakers to come up just as or a touch after the
> direct sound reaches the listener, don't you? Isn't the speed of
> sound on the (very) rough order of 1 foot per ms? So at -20'
> difference between the sound arrival from a speaker location and
the
> direct sound arrival puts you in a safe ballpark.
>
> {^_-} <- sometimes she gets obnoxious, doesn't she?
>

If the routing was for reinforcement only perhaps so, but when you
get into real-world applications where performers have to sing/play
along to monitor feed, well, I think the problem is obvious. Some
musicians claim that as little as 4 ms delay throws off their
performance, but that could be braggadocio (or an excuse). ;^>

Essentially, it would seem that SoundMan would be more of an SFX
alternative then for an AudioBox. My point was that having a fully
developed UI was important for making SoundMan successful which is
something that I certainly would like to see.

Bruce Ellman