21 Jun
2015
21 Jun
'15
6:55 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Bill Gribble <grib(a)billgribble.com> wrote:
Basically all audio processing in Linux is done on a buffer-by-buffer
basis with a several-buffer queue. You need to do nothing to get that,
it's just the way the underlying system works.
s/Linux/all general purpose operating systems, all plugin APIs, most well
known audio I/O APIs/
basically, EVERYTHING works this way. You get a buffer's worth of
data/space to read/write while the other buffer is being recorded/played.
You get told to work with a buffer, you don't get to decide when.
ALSA and JACK add an additional wrinkle that it is possible to configure
for more than 2 buffers, but in general, with a well designed audio
interface and reasonably sensible motherboards, there's never a
particularly good reason for d