[PD] timing question

[Andy Farnell]

On a closely related topic; Since Pd uses logical time why isn't there
a "render mode" Csound style, for those occasions where you don't actually
want to run in real time? Is it because blocking on unfinished output would
leave no way for an object to notify that it had finished the computation?


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:49:28 +0000
Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org> wrote:

> Derek Holzer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Charles Henry wrote:
> >> On Dec 17, 2007 3:03 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> >>> Hallo,
> >>> Charles Henry hat gesagt: // Charles Henry wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> [metro 1] creates a bang each millisecond, approximately.  The message
> >>>> rate is constrained by the block size, so you would want to put [metro
> >>>> 1] inside of a subpatch with [block~ 1] for best time resolution.
> >>> That's not true. Message rate is not related to the dsp vector size.
> >> My mistake.  I thought messages had to run in between dsp blocks.
> > 
> > Someone please refresh/adjust my memory... what IS the message rate in 
> > PD? I also thought it was related to block size all these years. And how 
> > can it be changed if needed?
> 
> There is no fixed rate, it's event-based with continuous time (or as 
> continuous as floating point numbers gets you).  But - it works with 
> "logical" time, any relationship to "real" time is purely a coincidence.
> 
> 
> Claude
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