On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:06:22 UTC+3, Ian McCall wrote:

Again - I don't have the audio engineering side that's on display in
this group, and am coming in purely from the music writing side.

I am a musician/arranger too (though not a professional) so I always try to see things and approach problems from the musicians' perspective also.

I find latency to be a problem with a lot of wireless gear. Probably
less important for conducting or recording an orchestra, but when
trying to play a keyboard into a an effects-heavy track on Logic for
instance there's already often a lag even on wired. Add in the
sometimes 200ms for wireless headphones and it starts getting really
annoying.

In the old church, We use the headphones for evaluating a track after recording, and for string, brass and woodwind overdubs, where the backing tracks have been made elsewhere. No delay is perceivable. As an engineer, I am tickled pink with the fact that I can move about in the acoustic space and make small mic adjustments, and hear the effect immediately without having to go back to control room monitors. By the same token, the control octagon (on wheels) can be moved to any position.

Can it be that the processors in your Logic system cannot handle in realtime the large amount of digital data you are trying to process.

I have a pair of Yamaha bluetooth MIDI adapters, these in fact:
https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/mu...t01/index.html.
They're not bad, but again I can notice a slight lag when playing and
it's just enough to irritate me.

I have similar experiences with MIDI. I am currently working on a big band project involving groups of players from three countries. This involves synchronising three digital consoles. I found that the "MIDI daisy chain" which one sees in so many project studio, produced irritating delays in the sync. These could be corrected with a TC offset, but we decided to use a MIDI distribution box in a star format with timecode fed from the 1st console, regenerated and sent to the other consoles and outboards with cables kept as short as possible. This works perfectly.


I use Audio Technica MT-50x headphones when writing/playing/faffing
about (the more technically accurate term for the vast majority of what
I do), and I use them precisely because they're relatively flat
according to all reviews (and to my experience).

:-) Duke Ellington had a nice term for faffing about, he called it "exploring ones artistic potential"


Good phones,
reasonable price - nice things.

My colleague chose the Sennheisers for much the same reason, plus the fact that he got a very good deal for such a large number of pairs. He had to keep in mind that he was not just choosing for himself, but for everyone with whom he would he working. Everyone likes them.

At my suggestion, the big band in which I play bought eight pairs of the same type, which we use for overdubs.


I would be interested to hear some of your "faffing"

Best regards
Iain