I think you can use dac~ anyway, because you're already
running DSP in PD to make csoundapi~ run, there would not
be any overhead. Note that csoundapi~ should not be
producing sound directly; if it is, is because one of the API
functions that stop that happening is not working.

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:30 pm
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: teaching csound: textbook, PD, etc
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk

> On Dec 6, 2007 10:27 AM, <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote:
> > No, in all the tests I have heard between Csound and PD,
> csound would be
> > miles more efficient, as far as DSP is concerned. I am not
> sure about SC,
> > because it does not run on all platforms that Csound supports
> (only half
> > runs on Windows). The FLTK widgets performance varies from system
> > to system, but on Windows is not more CPU intensive than PD's GUI.
>
> Does this mean it might be more efficient to output sound directly
> from Csound when using csoundapi~, as opposed to running the object
> straight to dac~? I usually do all my audio with
> csoundapi~ and add
> gain and output through Pd. Would it make much difference
> in that
> situation?
>
> -Chuckk
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