GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:43:57 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> 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? :-)

It's a big deal when recording. Low latency drivers for lower-end 
audio interfaces are a constant source of problems, and it's 
common to run out of time in the prescribed latency (defined by 
buffer size and the sample rate) to do the audio processing you 
want, leading to having to render things offline or use less cpu 
intensive plugins.

Digital mixers of the sort that are ubiqitous at modern gigs have 
had a lot of work put in to them to achieve as much as possible 
at as low a latency as possible.