On a Windows machine, whenever I start PD Vanilla 0.41.2, I get the following message on the pd console at startup:
"Separate audio device choices not supported; using sequential devices".
However, this is nonsense because I am using ONE input and ONE output device, with 2 channels each.
Furthermore, it is followed by a "resyncing audio" message (just at startup), even if DSP has not been turned on yet!!
And as soon as I load a patch, which has no dsp objects, and without enabling dsp, I get TWO "resyncing audio" messages.
Then I get more "resyncing audio" messages every once in a while for example whenever I minimize and restore a patch window full of gui objects. It does not happen with "small" patches however.....
Again, I am testing this with a big patch full of gui and things but with no ~objects at all, and without even turning on dsp.....
I don't really understand the resyncing audio stuff - I guess it would imply an audio dropout on an it-does-have-dsp-objects patch... I do indeed experience "resyncinc audio" messages on dsp-doing-stuff patches, but usually I see them after they have appeared and I can't tell if they are generating dropouts (if thet are, it may be just a one-block-time silence).
I can't understand what causes those audio resyncs and how to avoid them.
...... any suggestions?
NOTE: I do get "resyncing audio" even with only 2-channel in/out and non-asio, as mentioned before.
I'm always on WinXP
Thanks
P.S. someone may suggest using ASIO drivers; however in some situation I CAN'T use ASIO drivers. Sometimes I need to use an external MOTU with 4 input channels and I found NO WAY to get it working with asio with all 4-in and 2-out working (either some input or some output or both don't work). There's an old thread of mine about that in the archives with details. The only way I can get a motu to work with multiple inputs in PD is to use non-asio AND turn on an option in Motu's configuration called something like "legacy mode" that makes PD to be able to recognize its several input channels in standard mode).