Instruments and Devices
The Connector Device
The Stop Device
The Output Device
The Output device provides a general means for writing floating point samples to output files. The samples are initially un-normalised but the resulting data files may be normalised and converted into WAV format sound files with a separate programtao2wav. The minor inconvenience of
having to convert Tao output files into a more usable format as a separate
post-processing stage is imposed for good reason. Firstly it does have the
advantage that the user doesn't have to worry about sound samples going out
of range. Also, with a model which is heavily based around floating point
calculations and physically vibrating entities it is impossible to know the
amplitude of the vibrations in advance.
The present version of Tao only allows one and two channel output files but this will be changed in future releases to allow for arbitrary numbers of channels.
Instruments and Devices
The Connector Device
The Stop Device