[sdiy] Camel*ont* soft Da synth!

[Seb Francis]

Yes you (and Simon) are right, what I described is not the same as low 
latency.  However it's still a very worthwhile improvement on 
non-timestamped MIDI interfaces.  And for programmed (rather than 
played) dance music, or other quantised stuff, it's just as good as low 
latency.  In general because of PCs' multitasking architecture it's 
really a very good thing to have an external bit of hardware that clocks 
out the MIDI information at exact times.

Seb [who has made many records sequenced with Atari ST, and only 
recently started sequencing with PC]

P.S. I don't miss the crashing, slow loading time, slow software 
response, crappy display, etc.. :)


Paul Maddox wrote:
> Seb,
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>>> dunno, many people still regard the speed of the MIDI on the atari 
>>> as superb, as I recall it was under 1mS latency..
>>> Modern 3Ghz machines can't manage that.. speed is relative..
>> Not true if you have a MIDI interface that supports timestamping.  I 
>> use a MIDEX-8 with Cubase SX and the MIDI data is clocked out with 
>> perfect accuracy (well as perfect as is possible with such a slow 
>> serial interface!)
>
> not wishing to contradict you, sending data with a time stamp BEFORE 
> the event, is not the same as low latency.
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> Paul
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