Re: Questions about AudioParam

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> wrote:

> I have never seen any desktop audio applications go to great lengths, for
> example, to ensure that the level meters of different channels of a mixing
> board were all sampled from the same "audio render quantum".  It's just not
> considered that much of an issue.
>

OK, but we aren't building a desktop audio app, we're building an API that
thousands or millions of relatively unsophisticated developers will use in
ways we can't anticipate. We're also doing it in a context where unexpected
delay on the UI thread is an omnipresent threat. As such, given we can
provide a consistent snapshot relatively easily, it seems prudent to do so.
(For example, one way to implement the snapshot would be to just snapshot
the currentTime for an AudioContext and then have every
AudioParam.computedValue refer to that currentTime and compute its value
based on that.)

Rob
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