17 Nov
2003
17 Nov
'03
1:09 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'm not sure, but as I see it, Pd does not use Portaudio in callback mode, but the blocking in/out Pablio backend of PortAudio. IIR Pd could stay with PortAudio, but could get much lower latencies by converting the sound system to be callback based. This OTOH might require large changes to Pd.
I'm not sure if changes would be really that big, the callback based implementation is quite easily doable (and has been done already), then there are some critical points that are in need of threading, like soundfile loading, patch opening, and the array drawing stuff (which in need of a redesign anyhow), gui communication.
Guenter