Re: Missing information in the Web Audio spec

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>wrote:
>
>> If circular routing is not to be allowed, I quite like the solution in
>> MSP, to consider that graph blocked. To require throwing an error
>> synchronously would require checking for loops on every operation :(
>
>
> This example:
> var node = (new webkitAudioContext()).createGainNode(); node.connect(node);
> doesn't throw in Chrome dev. Chris, how does Webkit handle cycles?
>

They are allowed.  It's common in audio processing graphs to have delays
with feedback and they are commonly used in musical audio production.  As a
simple example, consider a delay with a low-pass filter in the feedback
loop which would be something like the beloved "Echoplex" tape delay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoplex

Chris