On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Enrique Erne wrote:
Phil Stone wrote:
Hi Atte,
Now that you're on your way with sssad, there's a nice trick you
should
know. If you find that loading a preset causes dropouts, consider
using
a ram disk to hold your presets during performance. This
Hi Hans,
I don't think this is anything to do with sssad, really. It is due to
Pd's lack of a threaded file loader/saver. The way I understand it (and
this is borne out by my experience), if a file operation cannot complete
within one dsp cycle, the next dsp cycle is delayed until after the
Part of the problem could also be that it is using canvas_open()
which means it searches the whole Path when using a relative name.
Try using absolute path names for the file to see if that speeds
things up (canvas_open() tries absolute file names first).
It would be possible to use a
