From: "Bruce Ellman" <bruce@...>

> --- 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.

Pieces of the UI are coming together. The communications with the
server still need to be added.

{^_^}