PortAudio Documentation

Copyright 2000 Phil Burk and Ross Bencina


V18

API Reference for V18

The Application Programmer Interface is documented in "portaudio.h".

Tutorial

Describes how to write audio programs using the PortAudio API.

Implementation Guide

Describes how to write an implementation of PortAudio for a new computer platform.

Paper Presented at ICMC2001 (PDF)

Describes the PortAudio API and discusses implementation issues. Written July 2001.

V19 - improved API

Proposed V19 Changes

Describes API changes being considered by the developer community. Feedback welcome.

API Reference for V19

Reference documents for the Application Programmer Interface for V19 generated by doxygen.

Paper presented at ACMC2003

"PortAudio and Media Synchronisation" - Discusses how the V19 API relates to various synchronisation tasks including MIDI controlled playback, GUI/Audio sync and MIDI sync. http://www.portaudio.com/docs/portaudio_sync_acmc2003.pdf (PDF)

Programmer's Guides


Miscellaneous

Improving Latency

How to tune your computer to achieve the lowest possible audio delay.
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