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

[chris clepper]

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.