[chuck] generative program, audio problems when sporking

[Ge Wang]

Hi Matthew,

Looking through the code, I think ChucK's 'sndbuf' is the source of
the audio problems.  For now, the sndbuf tries to load the entire file
into memory - bad!!! - we need to fix this soon.  The file I/O is most
likely causing havoc, especially if the files are large.  It has been on
our schedule to allow many readers to the same sndbuf, but this
requires the new object framework so it isn't done yet.  Also, we will
add more objects as we are deeper into 1.2, that will allow preloading
and other file I/O features.

For now, If possible, sndbuf's should load files at the beginning of 
chuck
time.  But this looks difficult since the program might like to allocate
sndbuf's at each recursive call/spork.  Perhaps it is possible to work
out some scheme to share a group of global sndbufs?  Meanwhile we
will continue to find a better solution to this problem.

Best,
Ge!


On Apr 27, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Matthew Shanley wrote:

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> yeah, I could put the samples up, but i'd rather not because they are
> very large. any files at all should work with minor tweaking, just swap
> out the string being passed as the name. the attributes are five-digit
> integers, ordered with the least significant (number 0) on the right -
> sorry I forget the technical name for this. for the purposes of 
> testing,
> they really make no difference though.
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> matt
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> Michael Heuer wrote:
> | On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Michael Heuer wrote:
> |
> |
> |>Ah, oops, I suppose I would need the samples in order to give it a 
> proper
> |>try.  Could you make these available somewhere?  Otherwise a bit of 
> doc on
> |>what the attribute values mean and I could substitute my own set of
> |>samples...
> |
> |
> | Wait a minute, I see now, the attribute values are in reverse order.
> |
> | I'll stop bothering you with emails now...  :)
> |
> |    michael
> |
> |
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