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<p>As I'm currently developing a small project that uses sounds in Squeak, I have collected a number of questions about the Sound package and am hoping to find some answers here. Even if you are able to answer one or two questions only, I will appreciate your
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<div>1. What is the difference between QueueSound and SequentialSound? Roughly speaking, they both appear to do the same. AbstractSound >> #, uses SequentialSound whereas QueueSound might be thread-safe. Is there any reason why the two are not unioned into
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">2. Why could</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> my coffeeCupClink be broken? It's already the second image in which I, after playing around a bit with sounds, managed to break that sound by accident. In both affected images,
Beeper beep just does not beep any more. However, all other SampledSounds still sound fine. <span>SampledSound initialize and VM restart didn't help. I even tried to find out what's going wrong with the help of comparative debugging of #play, but I did not
discover any meaningful difference ...</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt"><span>3. SoundService/<span>SoundPlayer/SoundSystem are not thread-safe, are they?</span></span></span></div>
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<div>4. Why does it take so much time to start the SoundPlayer? I could reproduce this in two images using:
<span>[[PluckedSound default play] timeProfile] fork. In both cases, the image was busy for ~150ms. If another sound is already playing, #play is fast. According to the TimeProfileBrowser, #newProcess eats up all the time (see attachment), but can this really
be true? Can you reproduce this on your machines or could this be a Windows-specific thing?</span></div>
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<div><span>5. Is there any built-in way for loudness normalization (as opposed to "normal" volume)?</span></div>
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<div>6. Can you recommend any further resources in Squeak for other sound concepts such as ring modulation, sawtooth/triangle/square waves, or also other musical instruments? For example, there are flutes and oboes, but I did not find a piano sound. Would it
be possible to build one as a combination of FMSounds or are these instruments more sophisticated to program?</div>
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<div class="_rp_T4" id="Item.MessagePartBody">Thanks in advance and have a happy weekend!</div>
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<div class="_rp_T4" id="Item.MessagePartBody">Best,</div>
<div class="_rp_T4" id="Item.MessagePartBody">Christoph</div>
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