<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_6818">> If an oscillator's output is not connected to a DAC, does it still make a sound? <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_6925"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_8803">If you're standing atop the CPU, maybe.  Even if the oscillator isn't hooked up to DAC its <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_7031" dir="ltr">"perform" routine will run every block, causing the CPU to do work at regularly-recurring intervals. <br></div><div dir="ltr">So the ground might get warm, maybe causing some wind around your ears... :)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_7032"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456240975137_6817"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:47 AM, William Huston <williamahuston@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div>  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8662379007"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>My answer is in the form of a Koan:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><b>If an oscillator's output is not connected to a DAC,<br clear="none"></b></div><b>does it still make a sound? </b><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8662379007gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8662379007yqt5212940641" id="yiv8662379007yqt61233"><div class="yiv8662379007gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Matti Viljamaa <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mviljamaa@kapsi.fi" target="_blank" href="mailto:mviljamaa@kapsi.fi">mviljamaa@kapsi.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8662379007gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Perhaps a bit of broad question, but I find it interesting in order to speculate about future additions.<br clear="none">
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