Anybody know what's the minimum latency that can be achieved passing MIDI notes from one computer to another?
I'm wondering if it's possible in theory to set up an audio generation cluster to be used as a realtime instrument. Basically, have a network aware synthesis app running on all machines, administer the setup/modification of the signal flow architecture from one master machine in non-rt over sockets, and then pass notes to the appropriate machines using midi interfaces. Naturally this depends on a signal path separable into big chunks. I have a hunch that midi over ip has latency too high and unpredictable for this. -jacob
