[maxmsp] Re: Sampling rate for physical controllers

There isn't really a fixed "standard" when it comes to control latency.  
If you talk to most musicians, they will want "as little as possible", 
but you are going to be limited by the speed of whatever hardware 
communication protocol you use.  Pretty much any hardware interface is 
going to have some amount of latency, but it will vary with the 
particular implementation.  You will have to find your own happy balance 
between data-rate, processing speed, hardware limitations, and 
perceptual effectiveness.  Most people I talk to find that up to 50ms is 
musically tolerable, and sometimes more if temporal interpolation is 
used effectively.  I would probably try to keep it below 50ms if possible.

Andrew B.