From: "Richard B. Ingraham" <rbingraham@...>
>> From: AudioBox@yahoogroups.com
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The actors are not 20ms away from stage monitors most of the time. Nor
> are musicians 20ms away from any hotspots or other pit monitors,
> etc..... :-))
>
> This is why I want to control where the delay is, and not be controlled
> (or limited) by it.
>
> Although I doubt anyone can really hear 4ms, except maybe in a headphone
> mix (which of course is getting more and more popular in orchestra pits
> these days), in my opinion adding 10ms onto everything is just a bit too
> much. Plus as I said before, I think those are rather rosy, best case
> scenarios, but feel free to prove me wrong.

I wonder of a MOTU 828 can be configured to loop back locally within
the box for "zero" latency for monitor performance. (I doubt it could
perform meaningful mixing, though.) If it has built in capabilities
Loren might decide it's worth looking into the direct loop back
scenarios. Hm....

(I wonder if there is an ASIO driver for AudioBox. {O,o})

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