Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote: as an alternative: assuming the files were in 16 bit, wouldn't it make more sense to create a ramdisk and store all wav-files there in order to read them with [readsf~]? this way you would save half of the amount, because they are

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: That would be a very nice object to have: [nosleep]. It probably or probably [meth]? are you envisioning an object to put the entire machine into performance mode (probably tuneable), or just the harddisk or just the performer? fgamdr IOhannes

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
+0200 From: Damian Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed hey, one thing i've noticed with readsf~ using it in my own live

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Damian Stewart
Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: Matt Barber wrote: Hey Greg, I wonder what would happen if you split your 8-channel files and played them simultaneously as 4-channel soundfiles... how long are the files? if they're not so long, and you've got a computer with a lot of memory, you might be able to

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Damian Stewart hat gesagt: // Damian Stewart wrote: Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: Matt Barber wrote: Hey Greg, I wonder what would happen if you split your 8-channel files and played them simultaneously as 4-channel soundfiles... how long are the files? if they're not so long,

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 19:09 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Damian Stewart hat gesagt: // Damian Stewart wrote: Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: Matt Barber wrote: Hey Greg, I wonder what would happen if you split your 8-channel files and played them simultaneously as 4-channel

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Matt Barber
Of course, the 8-channel environment is useful for its ambisonic and other spatialization potential, and one solution that works well (for certain musical situations) is to spatialize monophonic soundfiles in real time. This is a great solution for reducing performance demand on the hard

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-15 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
Matt Barber wrote: Of course, the 8-channel environment is useful for its ambisonic and other spatialization potential, and one solution that works well (for certain musical situations) is to spatialize monophonic soundfiles in real time. This is a great solution for reducing performance

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
Matt Barber wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:56:54 +0200 From: Damian Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed hey, one thing i've

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
Damian Stewart wrote: Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: I've attached the latest version of my basic playback (w/fade) patch for suggestions/comments... Unfortunately, your ascii patch didn't line up, would you mind posting an example patch that shows your method? first thing i notice when i open

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread hard off
i just found that removing the [wavinfo] external from my patch also helped reduce clicking. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
Damian Stewart wrote: Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: I've attached the latest version of my basic playback (w/fade) patch for suggestions/comments... Unfortunately, your ascii patch didn't line up, would you mind posting an example patch that shows your method? first thing i notice when i open it

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Farnell
Greg, you may like to experiment with tweaking the disk caches. For linux see here: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:11:02 -0400 Dr. Greg Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian Stewart wrote: Dr. Greg Wilder wrote: I've

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Dr. Greg Wilder
Andy Farnell wrote: Greg, you may like to experiment with tweaking the disk caches. For linux see here: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html Thanks for the idea, Andy. It seems my stock Studio64 RT kernel is treating my SATA as a SCSI device -- but sdparm

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
That would be a very nice object to have: [nosleep]. It probably wouldn't be hard on GNU/Linux. Then you could embed in performance patches. .hc On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:39 PM, hard off wrote: julian! you're a legend!!! that was totally the problem. it totally makes sense too,

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Barber
13:56:54 +0200 From: Damian Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed hey, one thing i've noticed with readsf~ using it in my

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-13 Thread Matt Barber
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:56:54 +0200 From: Damian Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed hey, one thing i've noticed

[PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-12 Thread Damian Stewart
hey, one thing i've noticed with readsf~ using it in my own live-performance sets is that doing this [symbol blahblahblah.aif] | [open $1, bang( | [readsf~] sometimes causes dropouts. but if you go [symbol blahblahblah.aif] | [t b a] | \ | \ [del 50][open $1( |

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-12 Thread hard off
i was going to post about the readsf~ dropout problem today. good timing. in my case though, i am sending the open message, and then manually banging to start, usually at least 15-20 seconds after opening, but i still get dropouts! not all the time, not in any pattern that i can recognise, but

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-12 Thread Julian Peterson
Is your hard drive going to sleep? I used to get this on osx when the HD would sleep. Telling it not to rest fixed the issue. I now routinely do this when performing live. JP On Jul 12, 2008, at 8:54 AM, hard off wrote: i was going to post about the readsf~ dropout problem today. good

Re: [PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

2008-07-12 Thread hard off
julian! you're a legend!!! that was totally the problem. it totally makes sense too, because when i sent a couple of 'open' messages in a row, i wouldn't get clicks, but if i left it for a while, it would drop out. now i have zero dropouts. awesome.