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/*! \page realtime Realtime Audio (blocking)
In this section, we modify the <TT>sineosc.cpp</TT> program in order to send the output to the default audio playback device on your computer system.
\include rtsine.cpp
The class RtWvOut is a protected subclass of WvOut. A number of optional constructor arguments can be used to fine tune its performance for a given system. RtWvOut provides a "single-sample" interface to the RtAudio class. Note that RtWvOut (as well as the RtWvIn and RtDuplex classes described below) make use of RtAudio's blocking input/output functionality. On systems which implement an inherently callback-based audio API, this blocking functionality will be less robust. An example of audio output using a callback scheme will be discussed in a subsequent tutorial section.
Though not used here, an RtWvIn class exists as well which can be used to read realtime audio data from an input device. See the <TT>record.cpp</TT> example program in the <TT>examples</TT> project for more information.
It may be possible to use an instance of RtWvOut and an instance of RtWvIn to simultaneously read and write realtime audio to and from a hardware device or devices. However, it is recommended to instead use a single instance of RtDuplex to achieve this behavior, in that it guarantees better synchronization between the input and output data. See the <TT>effects</TT> project or the <TT>io.cpp</TT> example program in the <TT>examples</TT> project for more information.
When using any realtime STK class (RtAudio, RtWvOut, RtWvIn, RtDuplex, RtMidi, TcpWvIn, TcpWvOut, Socket, and Thread), it is necessary to specify an audio/MIDI API preprocessor definition and link with the appropriate libraries or frameworks. For example, the above program could be compiled on a Linux system using the GNU g++ compiler and the ALSA audio API as follows (assuming all necessary files exist in the project directory):
\code
g++ -Wall -D__LINUX_ALSA__ -D__LITTLE_ENDIAN__ -o rtsine Stk.cpp WvIn.cpp WaveLoop.cpp WvOut.cpp \
RtWvOut.cpp RtAudio.cpp rtsine.cpp -lpthread -lasound
\endcode
On a Macintosh OS X system, the syntax would be:
\code
g++ -Wall -D__MACOSX_CORE__ -o rtsine Stk.cpp WvIn.cpp WaveLoop.cpp WvOut.cpp RtWvOut.cpp RtAudio.cpp \
rtsine.cpp -lpthread -framework CoreAudio -framework CoreMIDI -framework CoreFoundation
\endcode
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