• ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know much about “bluetooth instruments”, the question is what’s meant by that, exactly. There are wireless units for mics and guitars, but they are usually connected to an amp directly, so there is only one way transmission, which may be fine with a bit of latency.

    When you use your computer as a digital amp/effects processor, you get a roundtip latency, e.g. from the input into a AD converter, to digital processing and back through a DA into the speakers.

    That means you basically have doubled the internal latency and the more effects you use in parallel, the tighter the timings have to be.

    With jack on an optimised system, I get anything between 4-8ms of total latency. Anything below 20ms is generally considered “fine”, but you can hear it, depending on your subjective brain and ears. I would say I notice anything above 10ms already, but I’ve played with 16+ when I started and it worked for pracitsing.