You could start with the -noaudio option.

mvh/ Steffen Leve Poulsen

Ryan Supak skrev:

Hi list,

I use PD as a MIDI "pre-processor" for Ableton Live on OSX, and have done so for several years.

Something I've always wondered about: how to minimize MIDI latency? As far as I can tell (though I've never done a scientific test) MIDI throughput latency is locked with audio latency. I've also noticed that if I disable audio entirely that I run into strange problems.

So, since I use PD MIDI-only, I've ended up setting the audio latency to 1ms and disabling audio outputs -- but not disabling audio entirely.

Is this more or less the standard approach? Thanks in advance for any thoughts! rs