scheduling accuracy for audio

[andrea valle]

Thanks Paul,
that's what I suspected.

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On 9 Jul 2006, at 19:22, Paul Rubin wrote:

> andrea valle <andrea.valle at unito.it> writes:
>> In order to have sequencing I have to send at precise timing messages
>> from Python to SC. Obviously, being a musical application, I need
>> millisecond time accuracy, with less latency as possible or at least a
>> fixed (short) latency. More, I need to have multithreading, with many
>> processes sending messages from Python to SC.
>
> You really can't get that kind of accuracy with a non-realtime OS.
> The way this is handled in actual audio applications the sound board
> has a fair amount of buffering, so you send the right number of
> samples and precise scheduling isn't so important.
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>
Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
andrea.valle at unito.it