Chuck setup: dropout

[rhenninger]

I am setting up a minimalist computer music environment for myself on alpine linux using only alsa and cli on a single user 86_64 system: as simple as it gets.
I built ChucK with the 'linux-alsa' flag, all tests passed, and install worked fine.
I have had no trouble using csound or fluidsynth this way, but I cannot get ChucK to run without significant dropout in playback - even for a simple sine wave:

[nelsonpence]

Try

[rhenninger]

Thanks for the suggestion. I was reluctant to use chrt since it doesn't come with Alpine initially. 'chrt' is available by installing the util-linux-misc package which overwrites the softlinks of many other provided busybox implementations.

Still, since this is an experimental installation, I went ahead and loaded the package so I could give your suggestion a shot. Not sure why you had --silent in the cmd, since that suppresses the sound output. Removing that and playing with different srates, bufsizes and bufnums all yielded the same result.

Since raising process priority hasn't affect the output, I'm thinking the problem lies elsewhere: sample format, perhaps? Unnecessary threads in a single user cli environment? But I don't see command line options for controlling these.

Csound and fluidsynth have just worked with alsa. I wonder if the problem lies with RtAudio itself. Maybe I'll experiment with Stk to see if that has issues too.