[chuck-users] timing without audio?

Forrest Curo treegestalt at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 10:57:33 EDT 2014


Umm, if I left audio 'on' but simply didn't generate any of it through
Chuck?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Ryan Supak <ryansupak at gmail.com> wrote:

> There you have it. :) Would love a flag or option that doesn't force me to
> have a sound card to get accurate timing though.
>
> rs
>
>
> On Thursday, October 30, 2014, Robert Poor <rdpoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Recently, i found that I have to turn audio on, otherwise the timing
>> runs way too fast.
>>
>> That's a feature, not a bug! :)  What's going on is that ChucK uses
>> the DAC's clock for timing.  When you run without audio, ChucK simply
>> runs as fast as possible, which is great, for example, when you're
>> writing complex audio to a sound file.
>>
>> - Rob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Ryan Supak <ryansupak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Recently, i found that I have to turn audio on, otherwise the timing
>> runs
>> > way too fast. (Only an issue, I guess, if you're needing it to be
>> accurate
>> > and not just fast.)
>> >
>> > rs
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thursday, October 30, 2014, Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> As I understand it, you send some number to 'now'
>> >> and for that length of time the confuser will continue to run whatever
>> >> oscillator instances you've started, then go on through your code.
>> >>
>> >> So if you only used it to generate values to trigger voices and
>> changes in
>> >> other software, you could run Chuck without much overhead?
>> >>
>> >> Is this right, and how can I minimize that overhead?
>> >>
>> >> [Forrest Curo
>> >> San Diego]
>> >
>> >
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