[PD] multiple karplus-strong delays causing system to max out

[Derek Holzer]

I always thought only Pentium processors had this issue. My Athlon 
systems never got bogged down by denormals, running the same patches 
that killed my P4 in minutes.

d.

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> David McCarthy wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>  
>> I am trying to run 40 karplus-strong delays, 20ms max long each, using
>> vd~ and delwrite~ with the (filter~ bpq $1 $2 1 1) modulating.
>>  
>> My system is a 1.2GHz Athlon Win98SE 700MB Ram.
>>  
>> Perhaps it cannot deal with 0.99999 as the coefficient within each
>> infinite loop?
>>  
>> Maybe I should put the volume before the delay loop, as opposed to after?
>> Maybe I could use the xsample objects?
>>  
>> My processor starts off ok, and after about 1 min, it hits 100% and
>> stays there!
> 
> sounds like a denormal problem.
> which pd version are you using?
> which iemlib version are you using?
> 
> 
> mfg.asdr.
> IOhannes
> 
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