Wireless MIDI via Lemur - latency?

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lemurlover2013
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Wireless MIDI via Lemur - latency?

Post by lemurlover2013 »

Hey, I'm thinking of getting Lemur now but want to know a few things about wireless connection and latency.

Does anyone here measure the latency, the difference in time between doing something in Lemur and having the corresponding CC/note changes on the daemon machine.

Has anyone had any trouble using a Win7 laptop with builtin wireless?

I'm concerned about these issues because I dont want to purchase an iPad and Lemur only to find it is useless because of hardware or latency problems.
Softcore
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Re: Wireless MIDI via Lemur - latency?

Post by Softcore »

In all honesty, my experience with Lemur is great as far as reliability goes - it has never disconnected on me while on stage but it has disconnected an odd twice or so while testing stuff at the studio. I consider the incidents rare and not important. Truth is, it takes some messing about untill you find the correct initial set up (static IPs and all that) and sometimes you do need to re-establish some settings (in Daemon) but all in all, nothing big deal or troublesome.

As far as latency goes, I consider it to be useable for triggering effects, controlling synth or effect parameters or for playing long decaying synth sounds which do not require very precise timing - I think it would not satisfy though a virtuoso player especially with plucked - fast attack sounds - the latency is somewhat disturbing. The same goes for drum triggering - I think you better go the "sequenced" way for note triggers anyway.

All in all my personal opinion - after having bought an iPad exclusively for the purpose of using Lemur on it - is it was worth it every penny and hour spent (on leearning Lemur designing) mainly for the reasons of providing a large amount of controls at my fingertips with feedback and the layout I desire. Its a no brainer even as a secondary midi controller added to a set up.

systems tried:
windows 7 32 bit, windows 7 64 bit
iPad 2
lemurlover2013
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Re: Wireless MIDI via Lemur - latency?

Post by lemurlover2013 »

Thanks for the quick reply.

Another question - Does OSC have better latency over wireless than MIDI?
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