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Why Android isn't a platform for making music: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434 (Is

• valdiorn 14y ago
  I came here to say that. I do real-time audio plugins; guitar effects and amplifier simulation as a hobby and Bug 3434 is THE reason I don't have a smartphone. Android could have swallowed this market whole, but because of that fucking issue, it is completely and utterly useless for audio, IMO. Edit: For those of you who don't play instruments or have never tried using a digital device to process audio in real time, let me assure you that anything above 20ms latency is unplayable. You are unable to hold a rhythm when the delay from moving your fingers until your ears receive feedback is too great.
  • colomon 14y ago
    Unless I'm totally borking the math, most pipe organs where the pipes are on the other side of the room from the organ will have a greater delay than that just from the speed of sound. It just takes a little getting used to. Mind you, I wouldn't put up with that delay if I didn't have to, and I'd certainly encourage great latency improvements for Android!
    • dubya 14y ago
      It's worse than that, because the larger pipes take longer to sound, so you have to deal with variable latency. If you get a chance, you should watch an organist play from close up. It's really disorienting how little immediate feedback there is.
      • colomon 14y ago
        I should have said, one of my summer jobs during college was "church organist" -- at a small church with a lovely old pipe organ that had exactly these issues.
• rwhitman 14y ago
  Thats a shame, I'm sure hardware manufacturers are drooling at the prospect of embedding Android into hardware workstations