ddriver wrote:From your link I assume the processing latency of the megadrum is 4.5 msec, which is pretty good, but seeing how it stacks with the rest, is there some way of eliminating the 14 msec usb->midi latency. The USB interface itself is reported to have 1000 usec or 1 msec latency so it is hardly the bottleneck of performance.
I play technical death metal and many of the notes I play reach below 60 msec (like 16th at ~260BMP) and latency approaching 20 msec would result in 30+% offset, which is rather annoying.
Latency is not an issue with MD (if you have a decent PC and sound card), even with older firmware, even for Portnoy...
Believe me!
Total latency is about 8 to 10 ms (measured on my system). Playability is very good especially if you think that in the audio environment, 10 ms delay is perceived like a chorus effect, not like a "slap back"...