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Some musicians still like to play instruments -- for them and their listeners, ITB production is seen as a cheat and not real musicianship -- and for them the l
by bitwize 1y ago
Some musicians still like to play instruments -- for them and their listeners, ITB production is seen as a cheat and not real musicianship -- and for them the lack of a stable MIDI clock on today's hardware absolutely does matter. A trained musician can feel time difference as small as 1 ms. Any latency or jitter greater than that and a perfect track could be ruined.
As an aside, all-digital workflows take the joy out of music being made in the moment, by ear and by feel. There is no replacement, for example, for a professional sound engineer adjusting a mix strictly by the sound in their headphones and the feel of the sliders under their fingers.
- handbanana_ 1y ago> A trained musician can feel time difference as small as 1 ms No they cannot.
- deng 1y agohttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14992027.2025.2486847 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14992027.2025.24...
- Aldipower 1y agoGreat paper. So the average psychophysical gap threshold is at ~2ms! This is lower then I expected tbh, but always suspected.
- Aldipower 1y agoYou always want latency or jitter as low as possible. Latency adds up in the chain. Instrument/Sequencer (2ms) -> Some digital effect (3ms) -> Digital Mixer (3ms) -> In-Ear monitor bridges an air gap with processing (6ms) Suddenly you have 14ms latency. Bad, but reality. So, every ms less is better. Regarding jitter, this is the worst, because the brain cannot adapt to the changes, whereas constant latency can be regulated somehow by the brain.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoI have a Novation SL MkII as my controller keyboard. It is a much more tactile experience than say a DX7 or other menu diving synth. It has faders built in for mixing. As someone who has done both I have so much more joy being all digital. I have access to so much that I never did before.