RE: MFC10 latency

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 03:24 PM 9/8/2001, Tim Goodwin wrote:
>That's great to hear.  Someone emailed me privately and mentioned that it
>was an issue with their EDP.  After searching the LD archives I 
>discovered a
>brief thread that addressed this issue.

no, there is no issue with midi speed and the EDP. In fact the EDP is very 
fast in responding to midi. It has a very tight real-time architecture and 
is guaranteed to respond to any MIDI message within 1.5ms. In fact, it 
actually responds to midi faster than it does to it's own buttons, because 
we need to debounce buttons to make sure we know what is pressed. In the 
case of the buttons, the echoplex response is guaranteed to be less than 
3ms. Either way it is less than you will likely perceive, and less than 
the 
accuracy you will likely have in pressing the buttons! In designing the 
EDP 
we considered very fast real-time response to be absolutely critical to 
looping. So this was always a high priority in the design.

The JamMan is known to be rather slow in midi response though. As I recall 
of that past discussion, that was the device people were talking about in 
regards to the MFC-10, not the EDP. People determined it was actually the 
JamMan that was slow, when they initially thought their midi controller 
was 
slow. Andy seemed to think both were slow, as he wrote here:

http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200102/msg00293.html



>Andy Butler said that he was going
>to use a TRS for certain functions to resolve the practical aspects of 
>this
>problem.

that would have been in regards to the JamMan.

kim


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