Roman, you are almost certainly correct. Thank you for your excellent summary of PD dropouts and how to avoid them, and for clarifying my less-than-accurate description of one cause of them.
I think your post (the one previous to this one, the "dropout summary") should be in PDPedia under "audio dropouts."
Phil Stone pkstonemusic.com
Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 07:33 -0700, Phil Stone wrote:
In many cases (all my cases), the ram disk speeds up the i/o enough to get things done in one DSP block -- thus, no dropouts.
if i am not totally mistaken, the limit is not one dsp-block, but the buffersize used by pd. if a certain task cannot be finished within the latency time, there will be a dropout. if it would always be only one block, it wouldn't make any difference, what latency you use, right?
roman
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