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by spaceman_2020 1424 days ago
Latency would be a huge problem. Anything over 30ms results in your timing being slightly off. Go above 60ms and recording audio becomes impossible.

On my desktop with Ryzen 5700x, 32GB Ram and a dedicated audio interface, I still get 11ms I/O latency (22ms combined) in Ableton. If I had to send this signal through a web browser to a server, I can’t see any scenario where I could keep this under 30ms. Beyond 30ms, the lag becomes noticeable.

It can work if you’re only working with MIDI tracks but any audio work requires absolutely the lowest possible latency