Tech info - audio timing

For Live audio, it is important to have no latency.  This means, Myxyr does not do any buffering, any millisecond of audio is passed as quick as possible to your ears. To accomplish this, Myxyr uses a dedicated WLAN connection and transmits the audio signal over UDP.  TCP is only used in the data connection for controlling your mix.

A view on average latency timings:

• Analogue Audio comes in over a cable. this is electrical signal with practically no latency even with long cables. However some guitar effects deliver audio with a bit of latency.  
• The AD conversion in most professional PA mixers produces less than 10ms latency. Fortunately most of the less professional equipment also stays far below 20ms. E.g. a popular device like the Alesis Multimix 8 USB 2.0 manages to stay below 12ms. 
• The USB transmission from mixer to PC takes a few ms, the Windows ASIO driver may add some 2-3 ms more. 
• The DAW program will buffer the digital audio input again, may pass it through some compression filtering again, may need to convert the signal rate. Depending on the number of channels, timers and message loops introduce some more, so until Myxyr 'finally' receives its input signal, some 5ms have passed.  

So in total, Myxyr has to live with an input delay of approximately 20ms. 

• Myxyr Cast processes the incoming audio in real-time and moves it into Wi-Fi buffers with 3ms of audio. 
• Wi-Fi transmission takes practically no time, merely 1-2 ms, before Myxyr Ear gets the data
• Myxyr Live Ear converts the WLAN buffers to 6ms buffers and passes the audio to the audio driver.
• The device audio driver plays this audio as sound.

It makes for the total Myxyr processing a sound latency of approximately 10-12ms.

Significant timing setting

• Set your ASIO frame rate lower than the default 512, e.g. 128 samples. That is 3ms of audio. 

Result on proper settings:

A total latency of 30ms is comparable to a speaker distance of 10m.