[PD] Metro unstable osx

timon botez timon at sosolimited.com
Fri Feb 17 10:57:41 CET 2006


On 16 Feb 2006, at 16:54, derek holzer wrote:

> Hi Timon,
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> timon wrote:
> > Hi, I have this weird problem.
> > Ive been trying various installers over the last years. On all of  
> them
> > the metro is unstable.
> <snip>
> > the metro stutters irregularly.
>
> Can't say I've experienced this. A few questions:
>
> 1) What do you mean by "stuttering"?
>
Irregular bangs coming out of the metro.

> 2) Does it happen when only using PD, w/o Reason or Live?

I havent tried. As I use reason or live to generate audio. Ill do a  
little test.

> 3) Is it a visual stutter (a connected bang GUI-element appears to  
> trigger irregularly), or does it have an audible reaction (a  
> triggered note plays irregularly)? I ask because the GUI of the  
> installers is incredibly slow compared with older versions.
>

NO. Its definitely hear-able.

> Please verify that the problem happens in PD only, perhaps by using  
> the metro to switch an oscillator on and off. If it works fine in  
> PD, then the problem could be the MIDI connection with Reason, or  
> how Reason handles the incoming data. Also it would help to have  
> your OSX version, I imagine. Then somebody can narrow down what the  
> cause might be.
>
This has been occurring on 10.3++ and 10.4++. I have looked at ways  
of monitoring this in PD, but as you say, the GUI redraws slowly and  
irregularly. With that in mind it looks like its within PD.

Cheers,
Timon.

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