evil

evil transmits live audio input to all connected clients. On the receiving end, audio is played back with a pre-defined delay so that audio input is musically aligned to the other instruments.

Usage

For each loaded instance of evil, there can only be one client acting as sender, while the transmitted stream is received by all clients, the sender included. For becoming a sender, three conditions need to be met:

• master (the master clock) needs be running
• DSP needs to be turned on
• ownership needs to be assigned to the sending client

You can claim ownership by clicking owner in the gui. Once those conditions are met, the transmit button (top left square) turns from black to dark green to indicated readiness. Sending audio starts as soon as the transmit button is pressed. A receiving stream is indicated by the green buffer progress bar filling up. The orange playback bar displays the audio level of the received audio. As long as the transmit button is green, the stream is running. The streaming is stopped by clicking the trasmit button again.

Some notes

Bandwidth

evil transmits one channel as 16bit PCM at Pd’s current sampling rate. This amounts to roughly 100 kB/s at 44.1 kHz each way.

Congestion

evil makes sure that all clients receive the stream in time. If one client experiences a buffer underrun, it notifies the sender instance, which then immediately stops transmitting. If transmission keeps stopping often soon after start, this could mean that at least one client doesn’t have enough bandwidth for evil to work properly. It could also mean that one client’s clock is ahead in time. Make sure that all participating client’s master is in sync.

Correct timing

evil tries to start playback exactly aligned to the generated instruments, offset by the delay in the delay parameter. This only works correctly, if the effective round-trip audio latency is configured correctly in netpd-preferences.