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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately, reducing the numbers still won't make Android a real-time operating system (RTOS). That's inherent in the OS architecture: iOS is an RTOS, and Android isn't. That's not a criticism - simply a fact. It's not the latency as such that's an issue with non-real-time o/s's, but the fact that the latency is unpredictable, and changing the absolute number won't alter that. For the specific uses of musicians, iOS will always be a better platform than Android.
Windows CE is also an RTOS, as a matter of interest.
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I'd not have thought musicians need an RTOS for these purposes. OS or audio experts please correct me if I'm mistaken, but pros have been happily using non-RT systems like Windows and Mac OS for a long time.
I can see that an RTOS would be a great facility to take advantage of, but low latency, and adequate speed are all that's needed. The audio domain is lot more tolerant than, say, RADAR.
BTW, I didn't know iOS was a real-time OS. Interesting.