Actually Jelly Bean is finally supposed to provide usable audio latencies for audio apps: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/07/android-audio-improvements-will

Actually Jelly Bean is finally supposed to provide usable audio latencies for audio apps: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/07/android-audio-improvements-will-appear-first-on-galaxy-nexus/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/07/android-audio-improvem... Unfortunately, it will probably be a while until there's enough of an installed base of 4.1 to matter, but at least the fix is in.