delay from when you strike your acoustic snare drum to when the sound gets to your ear!)
Earphones have a Sound Travel Delay of only a teeny bit, since the little speakers inside are so
close to your ears.
Looking at the actual times involved in MIDI Delay (1mS), Sound Source Delay (.5mS-15mS),
and Sound Travel Delay (2-10mS), you can see that actual MIDI Delay is the least of your
worries.
(By the way, a MIDI Merge (In-merged-to-Out) generally has 1 to 2 mS Processing Delay.)
Because a drum sustains after you hit it for some time, quick hits or rolls have essentially two or more
separate acoustic sounds playing at once. Drums need polyphony per drum to sound real. The
trapKAT has 4 Note polyphony per pad so that you can capitalize on any sound sources that support
polyphony per note.
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