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On 2011-02-02 01:00, Ed Kelly wrote:
I get dropouts, regardless of the jack buffer size/buffers number. Is this because the dynamic creation of a new object interrupts the pd audio stream? If so, can this be alleviated - 1. is it a GUI problem (and will pd 0.43 fix it) and 2. if so, can pd -nogui sort it out?
given that you most likely do all the dynamic creation inside a closed canvas/window, the gui can be ruled out: so, no 0.43 won't fix your problems for you, nor will -nogui [1]
the problem most likely comes from the DSP graph being continuously rebuilt. the only things you can do for now is:
- try to reduce rebuilding of the DSP graph as much as possible.
needeless to say that you shouldn't dynamically create objects that are not needed. more interesting is that e.g. creating 3 objects while audio is running, will re-caculate the DSP graph 3 times. even if this happens in 0 logical time. so i you know you are going to schedule several dynamically created objects "at once", turn audio off before and turn it on again after you do the actual creation.
- try to get the DSP graph building into a separate thread.
well, this involves pd~ or the like....
fgmasdr IOhannes
[1] btw, it's usually really easy to check things: e.g. running your patch with "-nogui" and see whether you get dropouts might take about the same time as (you) asking on this list, (me) answering on this list and (you) reading the answer - not counting the delay due to amil-servers and the like. anyhow.