Stinky Pete wrote: The data is stored in a circular buffer and you just read and write around it. Why, on a conceptual level at least, would it be different here?Because the feedback has zero delay. That's the difference you aren't getting. You need to scale the sample and add it back in instantly. ...

tmoneygetpaid wrote:Thanks for your replies. It's good to hear from someone who understands this stuff, even in broad strokes, at the level of the underlying math and code. Same to you, StinkyPete.How did you get into this stuff? Are there resources you'd recommend?I cannot recommend this (free) boo...

The point is that you can't put an arbitrary processing unit in a feedback path without having artifacts resulting from the intrinsic latency in a digital system. as an aside: This conversation has inspired me to move some stuff from my old Soundcloud account to the Youtube channel where I post thin...

tmoneygetpaid wrote: At question is whether this 1-sample will actually impact the effectiveness of this trick,The one sample delay is the difference between each sample passing through the filter once and each sample passing through the filter hundreds or thousands of times, until any result is bel...

tmoneygetpaid wrote:Do you mean to say that the one-sample delay actually disallows the feedback? Or that the one-sample delay is compounded?In the analog world the delay is instantaneous. The signal is regenerated over and over again until it falls below the noise floor instantly.If you put a delay...

People didn't seem to be picking up on it.

Stinky Pete wrote:projectMalamute wrote:What Steve is describing involves the signal going from the output and back to the input a theoretically infinite number of times instantly. You can't do this in a DAW. What you can do is calculate what's happening and implement it another way, but you can't j...

tmoneygetpaid wrote:So are you acknowledging now that a plugin that doesn't create latency is possible?Bussing does not cause latency/ delay either, so where would this delay be coming from?A plugin that doesn't create any latency beyond the buffer in the DAW is possible.There is no way to get rid o...

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That link explained what I was looking for perfectly, thanks!