[PD] Feature suggestion: pd non-realtime

[Johannes Taelman]

Hi Miller and list,

From: "Miller Puckette" <mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu>
> ... aah, nobody answered because it's such an important question...

I was afraid that I was the only one to consider it an important feature...

> I'm planning to add ANOTHER flag, like -nosound, but also disabling
waiting
>for the system clock (as Pd now does.)

That's the way I'd expect it to work.

>  At the same time I want to introduce
> the modifications needed to allow Pd patches as VST plugins.  As it looks
> right now that should appear in 0.37 (i.e., I don't want to break 0.36
> open now that it mostly works..)

This sounds like a GREAT plan!
In the case of VST-plugging non-realtime would probably work
'out-of-the-box' by using the plugin in a batch processor, eg. cubase
'mixdown', wavelab 'apply' or whatever.

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:04:46PM +0100, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> > Measuring with [bang~]->[t b b]->[realtime]->[number] may be
> > deceptive.  If you look at an average of [realtime]'s output,
> > then it will show 1.4 (at 44.1kHz).

Right!

thanks all,
 j#|@