[andraudio] Lowest latency android device currently?

[Stefan Alder]

Thanks... can't wait until we can divide all these numbers by 10.


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Johannes Georg <johannesgeorg at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tested it on a German Galaxy Note with the new official ICS update.
>
> The measured value is 558.73016.
>
> Greetings Johannes
>
> Stefan Alder <twigbranch at gmail.com> hat geschrieben:
>
> Has anyone tested the latency of the Galaxy Note and the Samsung Infuse 4G?
> http://puredata.info/docs/AndroidLatency
>
> Haven't been able to get my hands on one yet.
>
> Short of actual numbers I'd be curious as to the feel of the latency
> relative to other devices.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Stefan Alder <twigbranch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried a Nexus S (the lowest latency on the posted results).
>>
>> The minimum buffer sizes I'm getting are:
>> 44.1k, Mono, 16-bit PCM:  8192
>> 22.05k, Stereo, 16-bit PCM: 8192
>> 44.1k, Stereo, 16-bit PCM: 16384
>>
>> but it definitely is lower latency than other devices I've tried with
>> the same min. buffer sizes.
>>
>> This is on 2.3.4.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Tyler <tyler at odbol.com> wrote:
>>> The best way to convince them might be to cite the competitor: iPad and
>>> iPhone: there are TONS of amazing audio apps on iOS with latency low
>>> enough
>>> to use for live performance: iKaossilator and Moog's apps come to mind.
>>> The
>>> iPad even lets you connect external USB audio hardware! If Android
>>> supported
>>> that it might be able to move in on that whole niche of music performers
>>> that pretty much are stuck with Apple right now.
>>>
>>> -Tyler
>>> --
>>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick Copeland <nickycopeland at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > From: pshirkey at boosthardware.com
>>>> > To: andraudio at music.columbia.edu
>>>> > Subject: Re: [andraudio] Lowest latency android device currently?
>>>> > >
>>>> > > The iSueUPro figure of 48ms is probably not something we are ever
>>>> > > going to expect on Android but the figure needs to come somewhere
>>>> > > closer to the iSueUTouch.
>>>> >
>>>> > Which also means that there is a significant hole in the market for a
>>>> > low
>>>> > latency android capable device.
>>>>
>>>> Is the hole really that significant? Audio apps on Android have download
>>>> figures in the K's to 10 of K's, all time. Compared to the handset
>>>> activations
>>>> of 100 of K's per day then low latency is evidently not significant, at
>>>> least it
>>>> is not something that is going to motivate either google or the handset
>>>> manufacturers to move their combined butts since even if they did make
>>>> _big_ changes to the audio interface it is not going to make an iota of
>>>> difference to their sales volumes.
>>>>
>>>> There are plenty of other features they can implement, much lower
>>>> hanging
>>>> fruit, that will help them maintain the 100K's of activations per day
>>>> and
>>>> low latency audio is not amongst them.
>>>>
>>>> If we want to inspire manufacturers to play ball they will need some
>>>> much
>>>> bigger adoption figures than any of the audio apps currently indicate is
>>>> achievable.
>>>>
>>>> I might actually lean earlier to the Linux/ARM ports that are making
>>>> their
>>>> way into the handset arena rather than the manufacturers to make these
>>>> devices more friendly to low latency apps, not that it helps any of the
>>>> apps
>>>> or affects the total dominance of Apple in this form factor.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, miffed, nick.
>>>
>>>
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