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Can confirm that many musicians have to play with latency. Pipe organs, heavily processed guitars (delay is an effect that is very commonly used) all are laggy

• lloeki 6y ago
  True for organists (for which I don’t know much about, but read on, as I believe the following applies to them as well) The fact that the effects are laggy doesn’t mean you need to sync on them, you’re mostly listening whether the sound envelope is correct (e.g adjust for overshoot/undershoot a bend). Checking the output of effects only matters at timescales of whole beats/measures in terms of how you have to react, definitely not like keeping up with tempo, which has to be precise across the band. You don’t get delay on drums, and exceedingly rarely so on bass, which is what you have to react agains efficiently, plus the instrument you’re playing provides its own subtle and not-so-subtle haptic feedback. On a guitar, this means the moment you pluck the chord is based on your internal clock synced by listening to the tempo giver (usually bass). Source: amateur musician myself, wife is pro.