Thanks for all that. [speedlim] seems to have solved everything. Joe
> On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:21 AM, András Murányi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just to refine Ingo's answer little bit: > >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3 things come to my mind spontaneously: >> >> 1) use a good sound card with good asio drivers (if you don't do already) >> 2) raise the latency a little bit >> 3) eliminate graphical objects like number boxes, sliders, etc. > > You don't have to absolutely eliminate graphical object but make sure you > don't run data THRU them. It means that data shall flow tru non-graphical > objects, and graphical objects shall be connected in Y "sideways". When you > need to use a graphical object both for setting values and for being set, use > a [set $1] message before them. > Also avoid doing too many tricks to graphical objects (like dynamically > setting their colors etc.) > >> >> If you use [mapping/resample] I would suggest adding [change] afterwards to >> avoid constant data to be sent or use [speedlim] which does the same thing. > > IMHO you shall use [change] and [speedlim] regardless of using > [mapping/resample] or not. > You can use both of them: [change] will avoid constant data from being sent > (be sure to convert floats to integers with [int] before!), while [speedlim] > will limit data flow to a given frequency. > > Also check that your USB devices are not connected thru USB hubs and they are > on separate USB2 or USB3 connections. > > András > > >> >> Ingo >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> [PD] realtime MIDI on Windows - best practices for efficiency? >> >> I have a big patch I use for realtime manipulation of live sound inputs. >> Often when adjusting pots and sliders on a USB MIDI controller, I get audio >> dropouts. >> I've tried putting all of the MIDI objects in a separate patch running in >> another instance of PD, polling the inputs at intervals using >> [mapping/resample] to reduce the amount of data being sent, and sending the >> data over OSC to the main patch. >> >> I've killed as many other processes as possible. >> And I still get dropouts. What could I be doing wrong? >> This is 0.43.4-extended on Windows 7. >> Thanks, >> Joe >> -- >> www.joenewlin.net >> www.twitter.com/joe_newlin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [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
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