Is SOUND synchronous or asynchronous ?

[DSMan195276]

I'm having a devil of a time getting that straight in my head.

SOUND

waits for the duration of the sound, so it's synchronous. Note however that if you use

PLAY "MB"

at some point to play sounds in the background that also impacts

SOUND

commands, so it's possible to have them play in the background (potentially by accident). That behavior was recently fixed in QB64-PE v3.2.0, so if you use a version older than that

SOUND

won't respect the

PLAY "MB"

setting and will always wait for the sound to finish.