[sdiy] Monosynth features poll

[Dave Manley]

Antti Huovilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> You are assuming that I don't feel when the jwire contact shorts,
>> which I do in fact.
>
> But you don't feel it immediately. Instead there's the nerve signal 
> delay, so as long as the latency between the generated sound and the 
> "impact" moment is much less than the nerve signal delay, the latency 
> doesn't really matter (as long as it's constant enough). Your brain 
> adapts to it and compensates automatically (as it does for the nerve 
> delay).
There's a missing factor: what is the delay between sound hitting the 
ear, and the brain perceiving it?

Switch closed -----> touch sensation

Switch closed -----> sound generation -----> sound perception

-Dave