At the moment, Pd is hardwired so that, if one stops DSP, the audio device is closed for ASIO, MMIO, ALSA, CoreAudio, and OSS (not sure if I'm forgetting one :) but is kept open if the current API is jack. THis is done so that one doesn't lose jack connections when stopping and restarting DSP. I don't know of any other case when it's appropriate to keep the audio driver open (and, by implication, keep inputting and outputing samples) when DSP isn't running.
Anyway, it can't be brought out into the GUI without changes to Pd itself. In general, I resist adding complexity whenever I can :)
Miller
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
From: colet.patrice colet.patrice@free.fr To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 8:10 AM Subject: RE : [PD] Preferences Dialog
Seems cool in windows, also it would be nice in audio settings to have a checkbox stating if pd let other audio applications use the audio drivers or not, like in cubase.
Is this with ASIO?
I'm on Debian. Â With JACK its something you'd set through the JACK command line interface or a GUI like qjackctl. Â With ALSA I don't think you can do that without having the dmix plugin. Â Not sure with OSS.
-Jonathan
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