Re: Oh the latency, think of the poor musos
There are two concerns about latency... first was with a wired connection via a midi adapter to the phone/tablet running a software synth. The midi controller was an Akai EWE. There was enough latency to make playing through Android devices difficult. I tried a few different synth apps and Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet, also tried with a Xiomei phone which had reasonable specs at the time. Everything was fine with an iPhone 7 and iPad Air 2. I also tried to go wireless with a couple of different Bluetooth transmitters. The latency was horrendous. Android phones may have adequate performance now to do the job with a wired connection, but going all wireless on iPhones will mean inserting BT latency into the circuit.