Graillon 1.0, VST effect fully made with D

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 10:14:40 UTC, Warwick wrote:
> We're talking about whether a plugin / audio code / runtime 
> environment can deliver audio to a soundcard in a reliable 
> manner so that you don't get audio drop outs. We're not talking 
> about the jitter of a digital clock source that's used to 
> control the actual sampling stream. It's similar but at the 
> level of the audio buffer timeslice, not the unit delta of the 
> sample stream. The jitter of an audio clock source is for 
> electronic engineers not audio plugin developers.

Thanks for saying this.
Said it better than anyone.


> IE. If you are at 90% cpu usage with 5ms timeslice you can only 
> tollerate 0.5ms jitter before the shit hits the fan. So the 
> important question is not "does it work", it's "does it work 
> under heavy load".

A common counter-point to stay clear of glitches is stay way 
below 90% CPU usage, have larger buffers or a beefier CPU. If you 
are maxing out the CPU you are asking for problems, it's not just 
the plugins being unpredictable. After all our OS aren't RTOS.