On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:
> >for example, if you're recording the MIDI messages from a live piano
> controller, you will want the subtleties of that timing recorded - you may
> have some lag when passing through to send(), but when playing back that
> recorded sequence later, your timestamps will be more precise.
> Hang on… I'm seeing what you are saying, but this seems like a strange way
> to achieve the desired outcome… if the idea is to hook device A to device B
> through some communication port (in this case we are using send), then it's
> better to do this directly. At the moment, we have basically this:
>
> input.addEventListener("message",function(e){output.send(e.data)})
>
> When what we really want is:
>
> input.connect(output);
>
> So you can bypass the JS layer and get realtime communication.
No, you're misunderstanding what I'm saying - it's rare, IMO, that you
would want to do this. That's my point - most of the time, you will be
recording and processing that data, but frequently you'll be recording it
relative to a "sequence clock" - so you'll need high precision.
Received on Friday, 14 December 2012 21:42:03 UTC