> How about the 1.0-1.5 ms latencies that everbody tries to obtain (or already > has) in both Linux/Win world? That always made me wonder if this isn't just > hype like the 192 kHz issue. > > I'm not a professional musician, but a 25 ms latency makes me more than > happy.
I would say that for playing a software synthesizer realtime a latency of 10ms or less is ok. I'm not sure what latency most hardware synthesizers have, but this will probably not be much better, sometimes even more than 10ms. Only the transmission of a noteon/off MIDI command will use 1ms (3 * 320usec, no running status). --martijn
