[sdiy] Ray tracing hardware for audio simulation

[mskala at northcoastsynthesis.com]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Mike Bryant wrote:

> https://www.audinate.com/learning/faqs/how-much-latency-is-acceptable-in-a-live-sound-situation

This Web page simply *asserts*, without evidence, that low latency is
desirable in the context of transport, not processing - and it's from a
company in the business of selling such transport systems.  An equally
strong argument can be made for oxygen-free copper.

That's not to say high-speed transport connections are worthless, but it's
a stretch from a company proudly claiming that their digital network can
compete with a simple analogue wire because it's almost as fast, to the
idea that a reverb unit needs to also be almost as fast as a wire.

> Trust me 1mS in a DSP processor is horrendous and asking for problems.  Except for a few special cases, all my digital products keep processing delay under 10 samples (100uS), leaving just the ADC and DACs as main cause of delay.
> Sometimes analogue (i.e. no latency) has a lot going for it !

Analogue is not without latency; nothing that processes frequencies over
time can be.

-- 
Matthew Skala
North Coast Synthesis Ltd.