[chuck-users] timing without audio?

[Ryan Supak]

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing in my case. But it was with a Raspberry
Pi and I was trying to conserve every cycle possible. rs

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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