Is SOUND synchronous or asynchronous ?

[CharlieJV]

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.

Let's see if I get it.

SOUND is asynchronous in the sense that a SOUND statement does not cause the entire program to pause until the statement finishes.

SOUND is synchronous in the sense that a SOUND statement cannot start until a previous SOUND statement completes.

Is that right?  Both asynchronous AND synchronous?