"fake" audio source

General JUCE discussion
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Perhaps an odd questions, but is it possible to create a “fake” audio source to give the device manager that just gives it “empty” buffers when there is no real device selected in the device manager? How would I accomplish this?

For example, I would like my processBlock callback to be called regularly at a given sample rate, buffer size, etc. regardless of whether there’s real audio coming from a real device. There are some non audio dependent tasks which I perform there, but which do require regular updating based on sample rate and buffer size, etc. Plus what if I still want to process the midi buffer if only a midi device exists?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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It sounds more like you’re asking for a fake audio device rather than a fake source. I guess it’s easy enough to do, you’d just have to write a subclass of AudioIODevice that runs a thread that makes the callbacks.

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thx :slight_smile: I’ll give it a shot.