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<blockquote data-quote="Karl Lies" data-source="post: 105980" data-attributes="member: 5327">Re: Latency and multitrack recording with overdubbing.I&#039;m sorry but I&#039;d have to differ with you on this...as a musician myself all I can say is that if you&#039;re trying to perform an overdub and hit a key or string but actually hear it&#039;s response 20-30 ms later, that just kills your ability to lock into a groove and no amount of after the fact time alignment will help that. This is the key point that so many people forget...the outbound latency of a system isn&#039;t the real problem, it&#039;s the round trip latency that the part that you&#039;re trying to play&nbsp; suffers from that knocks off your ability to drop into the groove of the&nbsp; song. If I&#039;m hearing previously recorded tracks through the can&#039;s and they all suffer from a 15ms latency I dont even notice it but if I hit a string or key and don&#039;t hear that sound in the can&#039;s for 15-20 or more ms that just screws up the ability to lock into the groove of the track.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karl Lies, post: 105980, member: 5327"] Re: Latency and multitrack recording with overdubbing. I'm sorry but I'd have to differ with you on this...as a musician myself all I can say is that if you're trying to perform an overdub and hit a key or string but actually hear it's response 20-30 ms later, that just kills your ability to lock into a groove and no amount of after the fact time alignment will help that. This is the key point that so many people forget...the outbound latency of a system isn't the real problem, it's the round trip latency that the part that you're trying to play suffers from that knocks off your ability to drop into the groove of the song. If I'm hearing previously recorded tracks through the can's and they all suffer from a 15ms latency I dont even notice it but if I hit a string or key and don't hear that sound in the can's for 15-20 or more ms that just screws up the ability to lock into the groove of the track. [/QUOTE]

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