[PD-dev] Pd without audio device (was: signal object test template for automated unit testing)

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 22:11 +0200, katja wrote:

By the way if Pd does not sync with an audio device for whatever reason, you get weird test results anyhow. Even if you do not want to actually hear the sound, the audio device must work well, for these signal object tests. That was one of the first things we observed in practice.

Can you elaborate on that? I used to use Pd setups without real audio device (for instance running Pd on a server producing an Icecast stream) and I never found anything odd. Probably it happens only under certain circumstances? Anyway, I'm interested to hear more about it as I always assumed that -noaudio should lead to same result as with audio (synced to a real device).

Roman