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Chapter 7 - Sound / Sound Reference

Protos / protoSoundChannel

Start

soundChannel:Start(async)

Starts the sound channel playing or recording.

async

Pass a non-nil value to play sounds asynchronously. If this value is nil, control does not return until the entire play or record queue is empty (all scheduled sound frames are played or recorded).

return value

Undefined; do not rely on it.

DISCUSSION

The sound channel begins playing or recording sound frames in the order they were scheduled.

This method throws the exception |evt.ex.fr| if an error occurs.