[sdiy] Monosynth features poll

[cheater cheater]

You are assuming that I don't feel when the jwire contact shorts,
which I do in fact.

D.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 17:50, Antti Huovilainen <ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> Rather than the randomness, it's about the immediate feedback between
>> what my ears hear and what my fingers feel (the physical position of
>> the key and vibration from the mechanism of the key)
>
> The neural feedback is not even close to immediate: The nerve signal takes
> some tens of milliseconds to reach from fingertips to brain. Also the key
> travel is not instantaneous.
>
> Because of both, the latency isn't really that important as long as jitter
> is low. I don't have official sources, but in some conversations with my
> prof back when I worked at HUT acoustics lab, he mentioned that the goal was
> to get latency down to 2-3 ms in the industry these days. Elsewhere
> (unfortunately I have no recollection where) I read that the best drummers
> can detect about 1 ms jitter. Of course, this is for drums which are much
> more timing sensitive than synths in any practical non-sequencer usage.
>
> I'd summarize the above as "As long as the jitter is within a millisecond or
> two and latency is below about 5 ms, the physical feel of the keyboard is
> more important than minor timing deviations from ideal."
>
> Antti
>
> "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow"
>  -- Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova
>