On 10/16/06, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any plan to allow ChucK to have its audio generation turned off?

Well, there is no real reason to use any Ugen's if all you need is MIDI, OSC and HID input, that's already quite nice, usable and not that expensive on the CPU.

ChucK audio *is* relatively heavy on the cpu but the default buffer is set quite low compared to other programs which affects things (resetting the buffer size on Win currently results in errors though). I had some good results with toning the sample rate down to 22KHz but that might not be suitable for your needs? For me it cost only a octave and gained me about half the cpu time but my own work is notoriously moody in tone and I hardly use that octave at all.

Kas.