Spencer;


Technically its because the SMS interface on Mac laptops is polled, rather than interrupt-driven -- the Hid object in the case of the SMS won't actually fire any events.  Also, polling it is relatively time-consuming.  So rather than ChucK enforcing a specific poll rate, you can choose your own according to how expensive it actually is on your platform, how much CPU/sample you have to spare, etc.

I see, that makes sense. Likely they do report their data to the mechanism that protects the HD in case of a fall more quickly over a dedicated connection then.

Thanks for your explanation.

Yours,
Kas.