[veli_joza]

5ms is bit on the low side. If you're playing from guitar amplifier that's 4 meters from you, you get 12 ms latency just from sound propagation (and most amps introduce additional latency). As extreme example of what the brain can compensate, church organ players have to deal with 100ms+ latency and they still manage to play Bach.

[romwell]

You can compensate for latency with a lot of practice, but playing anything with a sharp attack is not joyful when it's over 10-20ms -- especially so if you are used to playing an instrument which doesn't much of it (i.e. pretty much anything but a church organ :) )

[hyperpallium]

And guitar (and piano) are classified as percussive instruments, for though they have strings, the strings are struck.

[jcelerier]

> church organ players have to deal with 100ms+ latency and they still manage to play Bach.

but they don't play Bach on pipe organs with a drummer

[stalfs]

No, they play it with a choir.

[CPLX]

Though perhaps they should.

[mikepurvis]

Can confirm— I'm a piano player who did organ a few times for funerals and the like without having had formal training. If you try to match what you're hearing like on a piano, you'll end up just playing slower and slower; you basically have to play to a click track, either an actual one or the mental equivalent.