Audio Buffers

In the previous post, we created a very basic example that read a sample of audio from some input and routed it directly to output. At a sample rate of 40 kHz, this sequence of events repeated every 25 usec.

This is fine, provided that any processing you do on the sample does not last longer than 25 usec. Apply any heavier processing however and you run the risk of having your audio sound something like this: