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Date:     Mon, 12 Mar 90
From:     "Amy Pitts" <pitts@cambridge.ibm.com>
Subject:  Audio and X
To:       "xpert" <xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu>

I am doing some research into the uses of real-time audio in
scientific visualization applications.  This often takes the form
of real-time tone generation in response to data changes either during
a simulation, or as the user moves an input device, such as a mouse,
along a static image, to hear how the data values change.  For X-based
applications, there is a synchronization problem to insure that
the tone sounded does indeed correspond to the data value being shown
under the user's mouse.

My question to xpert subscribers is this:  what work, if any, is being
done to tie audio events to X events?  I believe this entails an audio
extension to X, so that a workstation may run a single X server to
handle both graphic and audio events.  I am very interested to hear
who is doing what in this area.

Amy Pitts
pitts@cambridge.ibm.com
Tel.: (617) 576-9224