RE: All-Laptop live??

["Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net>]

Does this mean that having a company put together a system (in this case, a
laptop) for your specific purpose and loading the software to make sure 
that
everything works correctly is worth an added expense?
This might also be a rhetorical question.
Gary
Hardware looper

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Larson [mailto:Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:24 PM
To: khartung@cableone.net
Cc: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: All-Laptop live?? (was RE: RE: A poll--shoes off?)


Some clarifications on what "latency" means for PC audio software:

There is a certain amount of inherent latency in any computer that is
independent of buffer sizes.  Among other things this is affected by the
operating system, processor speed, sound card driver, the amount of memory,
the speed of the disks, and the applications you have running.

When we set buffer sizes in an application, what we're doing is 
compensating
for this inherent latency.  If the buffer size is less than inherent 
latency
you will get "dropouts" or "clicks".
If the buffer size is greater than inherent latency, things will run
smoothly you will just be over compensating.    The goal is to tune
your buffer size so it is as close as possible to inherent latency without
being less.

Jeff