On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rohan Drape wrote:

> Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > My problem is: What time shall I expect for installing the synth graph at
> > the server? Any delay I choose is either too long or too short. I want to
> > say "install the sound, such that I'm able to play the sound at time x".
> > How can I do that?
>
> you can't, you need to wait for it to complete.
>
> scsynth makes no promises about the duration
> of async commands.  allocating large buffers
> and loading files from slow disks can take a
> rather long time.
>
> this is just the nature of the world, it is
> common to have at least an initializtion and
> then a run phase.

Then I'll go ahead with separated initialization and run phase. However I
feel that at some time in the future I will want to install new sounds
while playing others, then the problem will turn up again.


Thanks for the clarification!
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