Timing issue while playing a buffer in loop

[dkmayer]

@Koltes

I would have expected that the logical time of the server, coupled with a time tagged OSC bundle, would result in a sample-perfect timing, if the buffer length is not too big.

As James said, that’s not possible in realtime in principle, see

Imperfection of language-based timing

This goes back to an observation of my colleague Gerhard Eckel. I posted this a while ago on the mailing list, but can’t find it anymore in the archives. As I think it’s an interesting topic I’m reposting it here again for future reference. Timing in general is a crucial topic and practically users are mainly confronted with asynchronicity between server and language, latency, quantization, the Out/OffsetOut differences etc. Sample-accurate timing isn’t relevant in all contexts, nevertheless in…

Another issue here is that you’d need OffsetOut, but even this doesn’t cause sample-exact timing.

Apart from that, seamless looping (of arbitrary buffers) needs crossfading. You can check PlayBufCF from wslib or DX ugens from miSCellaneous_lib