Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-24 Thread Chris McCormick
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:21:54PM +0100, Si Mills wrote: I hope im not misunderstanding, but doesn't the s-abstraction way of using 'datastore' to change presets eliminate dropouts - Why is there a need for a ram disk? I mean is there a lag between hitting the giant message box and

Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-24 Thread Atte André Jensen
Frank Barknecht wrote: I would recommend to preload all textfiles that should be streamed to [sssad] into memory. Under linux I think cat *.sssad_states.txt /dev/null will do. -- peace, love harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk |

Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Stone
Hi Si, The problem Hans and I were discussing relates to storing/loading sssad presets to/from disk. Again, it's not sssad's problem; it's a general issue with Pd. When the dsp service is delayed by long file accesses, dropouts happen. That said, it's important to design sssad-using

Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote: The problem Hans and I were discussing relates to storing/loading sssad presets to/from disk. Again, it's not sssad's problem; it's a general issue with Pd. When the dsp service is delayed by long file accesses, dropouts happen. Yep.

Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Stone
Hi Frank, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote: The problem Hans and I were discussing relates to storing/loading sssad presets to/from disk. Again, it's not sssad's problem; it's a general issue with Pd. When the dsp service is delayed by long

Re: [PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-23 Thread hard off
what i have done is create a large textfile for presets that can be loaded when the patch is opened, which in turn sends its data to up to 1000 textfile objects. pd seems to have no problem with so many textfile objects storing data it might even be cheaper to do it this way than storing numbers