Hi Frank,
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
The problem Hans and I were discussing relates to storing/loading sssad presets to/from disk. Again, it's not sssad's problem; it's a general issue with Pd. When the dsp service is delayed by long file accesses, dropouts happen.
Yep.
Generally everything that touches the disk, is dangerous. [sssad] doesn't touch the disk at all, so it's not guilty here. ;)
I would recommend to preload all textfiles that should be streamed to [sssad] into memory. You don't need a ramdisk for that, just enough textfile objects. Those come cheap.
Six of one, half dozen of the other. :-) That's essentially what I'm doing with a ram disk: preloading textfile objects into memory. The nice thing about it, though, is that your Pd object doesn't have to care
- it all looks like a filesytem, whether its from ram disk or hard disk,
so you can use both/either according to your needs.
Best,
Phil