Hi Mario Check [switch~] and its help patch.
Roman On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 09:03 -0300, Mario Mey wrote: > Hi, there... I really need some help. > > I'm working on a looper-multi-effects (big) patch. It has more than, > more or less, 100 stereo FXs. They are all inside the patch as > abstracts. But, to avoid them to consume CPU, each one has a [switch~ 0] > if it is not working. So, there're only two FX at a time, where the DSP > is on. Something like this: > > Main patch: > > adc~ > | \ > | [s $0-pre-r] > [s $0-pre-l] > > [catch~ $0-post-l] > | [catch~ $0-post-r] > | / > [dac~] > > (the same for > > Each FX as file-abstracts (using [fx1 $0] to call them) inside the main > patch: > > [r $1-pre-l] [r $1-pre-r] > | / > [The-FX-itself.....] > | \ > [throw~ $1-post-l] [throw~ $1-post-r] > > > [0( [1( > | / > [switch~] > > > This technics DOES work very well. Buuut... when having 100 FX at the > same time (even not working), the CPU increase 15-20%. I repeat, > there're only two FX working at the time. The rest are "turned-off". > > For now, the CPU use is: > > Ready-to-use, 2 FXs on, DSP on: 47% > Recorded and playing 8 stereo-banks, 2 FXs being used, DSP on: 60 - 62% > (I have quite a few XRUNS) > Ready-to-use, 2 FXs on, DSP off: 7% > > As you can see, the non-signal processing is very low. > > What I think is that each FX is working when receiving and/or throwing > signal (200 [receive~] and [throw~] objects)... even they are sending > and/or processing nothing. > > Is there any other way to connect all the FXs to the main patch and to > have a lower CPU consumption? > > Maybe [inlet~] and [outlet~] consume less CPU? (I should connect all the > FX at hand... or find a aumotated way to do it) > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > Mario Mey > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
