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If you do any kind of music creation on your mobile device, Bluetooth is completely unacceptable. When you push a key/knob, you want to hear the sound NOW, cle
by Roboprog 7y ago
If you do any kind of music creation on your mobile device, Bluetooth is completely unacceptable.
When you push a key/knob, you want to hear the sound NOW, clearly.
One of iOS selling points is music production, otherwise, save the money???
- lostgame 7y agoThank you. Someone needed to say this. I’m sure some would argue that you could use the adapter - but do I really want to carry an adapter and have to find it within a moment of inspiration?
- Roboprog 7y agoTo clarify, I mean for audio. For MIDI it works well enough most of the time. I think note-on/off messages are 3 or 4 bytes, though, which is quite a bit less of a chunk to buffer and verify or whatever Bluetooth does
- PascLeRasc 7y agoNote-on/offs are 3 bytes exactly [1] and take 320μs to send [2], but I'm not sure what kind of overhead Bluetooth adds. [1]: http://www.music-software-development.com/midi-tutorial.html http://www.music-software-development.com/midi-tutorial.html [2] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/readings/davids-midi-spec.htm https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/readings/davids-midi-spe...
- Roboprog 7y agoThanks, gotcha. Half byte for on/off header, half for channel, byte for the note/pitch, byte for the velocity. This snippet probably xmits even faster at higher bps.
- brandonmenc 7y agoThere is an adapter. It works just fine. If you're a musician, you were probably also carrying around some 3.5 to quarter inch headphone adapters before this.
- Roboprog 7y agoI don’t always want to carry around an audio interface, though I do have several.