Re: OT: StringPort for polyphonic guitars

[Matthias Grob <matilists@gmail.com>]

On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:40, andy butler wrote:

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> Warren Sirota wrote:
>> i'm sorry, you don't think a hw guitar synth is using d/a  
>> converters with buffering internally?
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> I'm not sure exactly how a piece of HW with a dedicated DSP chip  
> works,
> but certainly the latency from in to out can be very low.
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> Much less than with an audio interface feeding into a non-real time OS
> like Windows or OSX.

sure
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> That being said, I be very interested to know how the StringPort  
> performs
> in this respect. If the interface/drivers are specifically designed  
> for low latency
> it could be impressive.

but its designed to run the audio through the computer, as I  
understand, so the latency depends mostly on the OS as with most audio  
interfaces.
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> andy
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