[chuck] using multiple dac's in one shred?

[Gary P. Scavone]

Hi Gary,

Multi-dac usage is generally not good unless you can synchronize the 
two clocks ... otherwise, you get drift over time.

--gary

On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Gary Williams wrote:

>
> I was thinking about multiple voice chords and I see dac described in 
> the
> Programming Guide as
>
> [ugen] dac
>     * digital/analog converter
>     * abstraction for underlying audio output device
>
> so I thought that it could be the target of multiple ugen's in one 
> shred,
> and tried it here
> http://garywilliams.org/chuck/bpmulti2.ck
>
> It seems to work. So I used it as the basis of an article on 
> http://b-chuck
> blogspot.com/.  But I notice that if I use multiple instances of this
>
>   chuck bpmulti2.ck bpmulti2.ck
>
> it generates interference.
>
> Is multiple dac usage legal (and proper)? And does anyone know why 
> multiple
> instances generate interference?
>
> --Gary Williams
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