GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 12/12/13 16:47, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Instead I had to time the screen to get any points.

Not defending Guitar Hero here, but sometimes it is necessary to follow visual 
rather than sonic cues in performance -- e.g. the brass players and others at 
the back of a symphony orchestra will often play ahead of musicians at the very 
front, because the sound takes longer to get from them to the audience.  There's 
a lot of subtle internal stuff that goes on with different sections of the 
orchestra having to react and play differently in order to keep the whole 
together, and a lot of that needs to be be modulated by following visual cues of 
one kind or another from various different people, sometimes against the grain 
of what your ears are getting.

Then there are things like some extreme contemporary music where different 
musicians are effectively in different tempi -- you can play with a click-track, 
but sometimes it's easier or preferable to have flashing lights give you your 
own personal tempo.

Plugged-in performance isn't really my area, but it wouldn't surprise me if 
having to deal with latency is an occasional occupational challenge there -- can 
anyone confirm? :-)