GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Mike James]

"Jerry" <jlquinn at optonline.net> wrote in message 
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> Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 13 December 2013 19:31, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I've experienced the same slowing effect I mentioned before in this 
>> context
>> too.
>> Have you ever trying playing with a delay AND an uncomfortably high 
>> latency?
>> Since you're playing with a delay, you're effectively playing against 
>> yourself
>> from a couple 100ms ago. If you play when you hear yourself, but there's 
>> an
>> effective latency on that note trigger, it will compound that latency, 
>> and
>> you'll drift towards a slower tempo as you play.
>> It's so weird when I feel myself do it, but it's awfully hard to control 
>> (I
>> don't have mates to play music with... I play a lot with a delay/looper).
>
> One of the worst examples of this I've heard of was pipe organs in a
> very large church.  The organist console sits at the opposite end of the
> church from the pipes, perhaps 100 feet away from some pipes, leading to
> extremely large delays.  I read one account where low notes had a 300ms
> delay from pressing the pedal.
>
> Jerry

Yeh - I had a friend who restored and played theatre organs. He said you had 
to play to the sheet music and completely ignore the sound.

-=mike=-