[PD] audio dropouts when loading samples

[eskogen at usfamily.net]

i've used Pd for interactive performance quite a bit in the past six months
and this was one of the most irritating problems. my solution was to have
a series of tables loaded at the start with the first few samples i needed,
sized to be very large.

i then had an abstraction to sfread~ any sounds i wanted to load later on
into the arrays. sfread~ is threaded, so it doesn't lock up the GUI and 
audio cause dropouts. this would stream my samples into the array, then 
let me know when the samples was streamed completely. as long as my tables 
were large enough, it was no problem.





>AFAIK there is no way around it for now, if i were you i would just 
>preload all the samples you may want to use each into its own array and 
>then at performance time choose which array you read from.  how well 
>this will work out of course depends on how many samples you need.

>-josh

>Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
=
>hi,
>
>has any one come up with a solution to the problem of audio dropouts when
>loading wav files into tables?  i'm going to be doing some performance soon,
>and i'd really like to be able to load these samples without getting
>dropouts.





















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