Hi everybody,
I'm not even certain this is a problem across all operating and sound systems; it certainly is a problem on my setup with OS X. Any sort of file access has the possibility (*probability* on the first access to a given file) of causing audio dropouts. For instance, if I use [tunetof] to load in new scale data, the first time I access a given scale file, there's a dropout. Subsequent accesses of that same file don't seem to cause dropouts.
I currently just switched to PD 0.40.3-extended, but this has been happening for as long as I can remember -- several versions back. Is this behavior common across PD, or just something intrinsic to OS X or my sound hardware?
Also, is it some kind of file caching that's keeping subsequent access to a file from causing dropouts?
Phil Stone pkstonemusic.com