[PD] isn't the GUI supposed to have lower priority than process?

[Tim Blechmann]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:26 -0500, chris clepper wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Tim Blechmann <tim at klingt.org> wrote:
> 
> > loading a soundfile in the background is trivial ... just the way the pd
> > interpreter uses them (instantiate a patch / resort the dsp chain) isn't
> > realtime safe ...
> 
> Even applications like Logic do not create new audio threads while
> audio is running.  Once audio is stopped the tree is resorted and the
> load balanced between threads.

there are applications which are able to load soundfiles in a
realtime-safe way. there are even applications which can manipulate the
dsp graph while running audio without dropouts ...
as nova supports both, i can say, it's quite easy if the architecture is
well designed ..

t

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