RE: All-Laptop live??

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Or at a bare minimum buying a notebook that the company has tested and
recommends with the application you plan to use. For example with
ProTools mBox, Digidesign has tested and recommends a handful of
notebooks.

Kris



-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lehmann [mailto:hqr@cox.net] 
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:51 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: RE: All-Laptop live?? 


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