Latency – A Brief Guide
Latency is, put as simply as possible, the delay between something happening and it becoming apparent that it has happened. In the audio world, it’s the time difference between you pressing a button and the sound that button makes becoming audible, and it’s measured in milliseconds (ms). It stands to reason that the more latency there is between that button press and the resultant audio, the less accurate you can be with your control of when that audio sounds, but how much latency can we put up with before our performance is affected?
