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Re: Real-time category

Jeff Larson wrote:
> Ian Petersen wrote:
>  > Of course they can do it. But they are only conscious of having done 
>it
>  > half a second after the unconscious has initiated the action.
> 
> I think I understand the theory, but we're sort of splitting hairs
> over terminology.  Whether we react consciously or unconsciously
> (whatever that means) isn't really related to the discussion on RTOS
> and how we perceive latency and jitter.  An error in timing may be
> consciously perceived much later than it actually happened, but it
> doesn't really matter, the important thing is that we perceived it at
> all.  The problem we have to solve in building audio applications
> is to make it so these errors are not (eventually) perceived.

The brain works like a software looper, though there is a latency in 
perceiving things we still know when it happened, and if it was in time 
or off...

Stefan

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