Buffer size and playback quality - erutufon|nofuture

CV · 14th January 2003

I am wondering - and my ears may be deceiving me.... but , in a MOTU audio system (or other system for that matter) .... when the user increases the samples buffer size for better DSP performance during playback , does this noticeably change the quality of the playback in Logic? - I know that latency from playing a Audio Instrument live , increases , but does the sequencer compensate for latency when just playing back , at any buffer size?

lucid rinehead · 17th January 2003

scratch that

misunderstood the question

CV · 17th January 2003

its sad answering your own question - but hey... Well , it seems that some plug ins do need a small lookahead type buffer , or a process buffer and these will lose there timing .... but other simpler plug ins don't ... so of course a mix can perceivably change quite dramatically - sound less tight - with certain plug in configurations , but with other simpler modules it may not sound so different mixwise with a higher latency sample buffer size...

... maybe i misunderstood the answer...

14th January 2003	#1
CV cristianvogel.neverengine.org Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,983	Buffer size and playback quality I am wondering - and my ears may be deceiving me.... but , in a MOTU audio system (or other system for that matter) .... when the user increases the samples buffer size for better DSP performance during playback , does this noticeably change the quality of the playback in Logic? - I know that latency from playing a Audio Instrument live , increases , but does the sequencer compensate for latency when just playing back , at any buffer size?
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17th January 2003	#2
lucid rinehead um... Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: glasgow Posts: 328	scratch that misunderstood the question Last edited by lucid rinehead : 17th January 2003 at 13:13.
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17th January 2003	#3
CV cristianvogel.neverengine.org Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,983	its sad answering your own question - but hey... Well , it seems that some plug ins do need a small lookahead type buffer , or a process buffer and these will lose there timing .... but other simpler plug ins don't ... so of course a mix can perceivably change quite dramatically - sound less tight - with certain plug in configurations , but with other simpler modules it may not sound so different mixwise with a higher latency sample buffer size... ... maybe i misunderstood the answer...
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