[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-3614064 ] inconsistent latency with mmio II

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Bugs item #3614064, was opened at 2013-05-28 15:24
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Category: pd-extended
Group: v0.43
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: lucarda (lucarda)
Assigned to: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Summary: inconsistent latency with mmio II

Initial Comment:
Hi, thanks IOhannes for the previous answer but consider this:

Audiobuffer settings, in this model, is an effective way to deal with
slow hardware.

Readsf~ bangs when finishes playing a soundfile, this bang triggers the
same readsf~ to open and play a randomly chosen file (open $1.wav, 1). 

Since readsf~ has to go to that file wherever it is and start reading, the
audiobuffer setting allows gap-less playback between files.

If I give 500ms readsf~ will have half a second to go anywhere in the
hard-drive and start streaming.

5400rpm hard-drives need more time to achieve this than a Pendrive. My
netbook plays my abstractions (with more than 3 readsf~ simultaneously)
with 100ms with no problem from a Pendrive but need 500ms to do it from the
5400rpm hard-drive.

Here the point is that 500ms using ASIO is fine but 500ms in MMIO has gaps.
And as mentioned previously with the toggle and the osc~ it feels that MMIO
is computing faster than 500ms.

I think that in this situation the audiobuffer is a kind of read ahead for
readsf~ which is very useful. 

I switched back to 0.42.5-extended and using MMIO 500ms was fine both giving gap-less playback and the toggle in the osc~ felt more like 500ms.

It will be very cool if 0.44-extended allow 500ms or more in MMIO.

Thanx again. 

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If I put 500 in the Delay(ms) using MMIO in the audio settings changes are heard faster than 500ms in ASIO. tested with a toggle to a (*~) in between osc~ and dac~ in 0.43.4-extended.
This didn`t happened in previous versions.


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