[sdiy] One Octave Foot Pedal Project

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 03:56 PM, WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> You almost have to mentally "turn off" your ears while playing a pipe
>> organ -- otherwise the latency will drive you nuts!  Hey, now
>> there's a perfect application for a soft synth... a virtual pipe organ.

I find this of default interest, actually incredibly interesting,
consumingly so, especially with regard to all of the foaming at the mouth
that I've heard from MIDI-haters.  So we have an example of a non-MIDI
instrument (and therefore a REAL instrument) that presents real latency
that drives the musician to - Oh my God - deal with the latency by
LEARNING how to play it.  (CRAP! how unperfect!)  I have not personally
noticed MIDI latency myself with keyboards, but then I don't try to play
through an ocean of messages, however, I have noticed a small latency with
my GR-50 before I switched to modified Nashville tuning.  I did get used
to it and it's now a great source of fun.

THIS IS NOT TO START A MIDI LATENCY WAR THREAD.  THOSE OF YOU WHO HATE
MIDI NEED NOT RESPOND.  YOU/WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.  It's just an observation
that it can happen with "real" instruments and that when people *really*
want to make music with instruments that have built in latency, they learn
how to deal with it.  I did.

You may now continue with your regularly scheduled program...

>
>Don't laugh...someone's already been there, done that:
>http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio/  (scroll down to "Aeolus"; 
>there are some pretty good mp3 demos)
>
>> They  could claim that the key to sound latency is simply just a part 
>> of the
>> realistic psychological simulation of the pipe organ experience.
>
>I think he left this part out, though.  ; )
>
>-PRH
>
>Paul Higgins
>email: higg0008 at tc.umn.edu
>

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