Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!eacj
From: eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Digitized Sound Problems
Message-ID: <2952@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 23:33:42 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.2952
Posted: Tue Nov 17 23:33:42 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Nov-87 21:19:17 EST
References: <4Vc96ly00XcPN3o0OS@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 21

In article <4Vc96ly00XcPN3o0OS@andrew.cmu.edu> rj0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert George Johnston, Jr.) writes:
>
>	This is true, but I have two problems. The first, and most annoying
>problem that I have encountered is that the source code does not do a "back
>door" trick on the Sound Manager to elliminate the annoying click that is
>produced with every call to StartSound. 

One way to avoid clicks is to allocate your samples in integral multiples
of 370 (or maybe 740, I forget which).  Pad the sample block with bytes
set to 80 (hex).  That's the sample value for zero amplitude.  The number
740 comes from the size of the RAM buffer in high memory used by the Sound
Driver and Disk Driver (alternate bytes are used for the sound samples and
disk drive motor speed values).

So what's a "back door" trick?

-- 
Julian Vrieslander    (607) 255-3594
Neurobiology & Behavior, W250 Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853    
UUCP: {cmcl2,decvax,rochester,uw-beaver,ihnp4}!cornell!batcomputer!eacj
ARPA: eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu     BITNET: eacj@CRNLTHRY