GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 12/12/13 19:52, John Colvin wrote:
> Delay between people isn't really the problem, it's delay in hearing yourself
> that's the killer.

Think people listening to people they hear with delay for their musical cues, 
and the people they are listening to listening to _them_ for their musical cues, 
and the feedback effect that might result ... :-)  You have to get used to the 
fact that the right time to play may sound like the wrong time to play relative 
to some other group spatially separated from you.

By the same token, if everyone plays precisely with the conductor, they don't 
actually play precisely together as far as the audience is concerned, which is 
why professional orchestras tend to play a bit behind the conductor's beat.