Hey hey,
I wonder how would you best derive a steady MIDI clock in software for a cross
platform application? Cross platform in this case almost certainly means Linux
and mac.
I know about one or two applications that use the timeofday/sleep mechanism,
but from first hand experience I know that these tend to drift and wobble.
This becomes apparent when syncing a synth with clock synced delays to that
clock. There is a slight chorus effect. Furthermore, subsequent renderings of
the same song is too much out of sync. Exact re-runs are necessary with
connected mono timbral instruments that have to contribute several sounds to
the same song.
I did think about using RtAudio with a very low blocksize. The callback
function could supply a steady time source at the connected soundcard's
samplerate (or any subdivision thereof). Is that feasible? Or will some
function from any of the Boost libraries do? I haven't found the right one
yet. The Thread library contains its versions of sleep (i.e. sleep_for) and
other libraries supply all kinds of finely grained time formats. But
apparently, they too are based on a timeofday based mechanism.
Being new to this kind of task, I am a bit at a loss. So any practical
pointers and hints are welcome.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
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