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Was just thinking about this the other day. In music production you can determine this; you have to be able to hear just a millisecond of difference sometimes t
by junon 5y ago
Was just thinking about this the other day. In music production you can determine this; you have to be able to hear just a millisecond of difference sometimes to align things well, especially when you're working with instruments that have considerable delay (e.g. almost all Kontakt instruments).
- jacquesm 5y agoEssentially anything that is MIDI based or has an audio buffer somehwere.
- junon 5y agoYes but what I meant is that even though you place a midi note directly on a beat, many instruments still have a pretty considerably delay, in the order of 10-100ms.
- jacquesm 5y agoNot only that, those delays themselves tend to change depending on how 'busy' the instrument is, for instance, whether you are using layered patches, multiple notes at once, different instruments at once and so on. It can change from one note to the next, sometimes without any clear hint as to why that is the case.
- beardyw 5y agoAnd also with samples. If you take, say, a tuba the player must start blowing well before the beat so there is a natural breath you want to preserve. In midi there is no real way to preempt that except by playing the sample early as best as possible. I trained tuba player will just know instinctively.