Christmas Project – Part 2

Most of sound examples I have seen revolve around visualization of the sound wave.  The application architecture has 2 threads – thread #1 plays the music, thread #2 runs as a continual loop.  In that loop, the app polls the sound card’s buffer and reads inforamtion out of that buffer.  Based on that information, it updates the display.  None of the examples I have seen actaully describe that buffer in detail – what each value of the return array means, for example.  I hope to get a better understanding via the MSDN documentation.  Also, I wonder what the maximum speed the mechanical switch of the phiget can run – can it keep up with 8th notes Con Brio?  We soon shall see…