[HN Gopher] Digital Audio Mixer Pt.2
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       Digital Audio Mixer Pt.2
        
       Author : bo0tzz
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-03-09 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | AS37 wrote:
       | I find real-time audio mixers super interesting. A lot about
       | writing your own can seem easy, until you find yourself in a
       | fight against latency. If you hit 30ms you're dead, the mixer
       | will become almost useless in a live setting. That's why the big
       | expensive equipment hasn't been replaced by iPads. The highly
       | regarded commercial SQ mixers [0] have 0.7ms end-to-end latency
       | thanks to an FPGA inside.
       | 
       | I also firmly believe that, in the future, everything will be
       | connected via Dante [1], which will be another example of
       | commodity(-ish) computer networks eating everything.
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       | [0] https://www.allen-heath.com/hardware/sq/
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       | [1] https://www.audinate.com/
        
         | jpc0 wrote:
         | > I also firmly believe that, in the future, everything will be
         | connected via Dante
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         | I'm yet to read the article but regarding this, Dante is a
         | massive step forward and is currently dominating the market but
         | I feel like we are significantly more likely to see something
         | like AES67 disrupting the market that MADI currently hold than
         | Dante. It does naturally help Dante's case that it has an AES67
         | compatible mode.
        
           | duped wrote:
           | AES67 was essentially created to be the interoperability
           | standard for Dante and Ravenna. It's compatible by design.
        
         | MartijnBraam wrote:
         | With my current code the latency should be lower than 10ms at
         | least but I haven't measured it exactly yet.
         | 
         | I want to try adding AES67 support since the Teensy 4 has
         | native Ethernet and the protocol isn't that complicated, but it
         | isn't needed for this use case yet.
        
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