[PD] audio drop-outs when resizing tables??

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Hi again,

Going on with the test that I described in the previous post (included 
below), I have tried to send a [set somethingelse( to the [tabread~] before 
I resize the table xxx, so that when I do the resize, there isn't any 
tabread~ reading from it anymore. But the drop-out happens allthesame.
Even if I DELETE the tabread~ object, drop-outs are still heard whenever I 
resize the table.

Note that if I delete all and start from scratch, and create the table xxx 
without any tabread, it does NOT generate drop-outs when resized.

So, apparently the symptoms are:
"Whenever you resize a table, if there have ever existed a tabread~ object 
that have ever been reading from that table at any moment in the past, the 
resize may cause a dsp drop-out"

!!!!!!

Definitely sounds like a bug.........


Sorry for spanning multiple messages with this.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matteo Sisti Sette" <matteo.sistisette at email.it>
To: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: audio drop-outs when resizing tables??


Hi,
I am still unable to reproduce it on a simple test patch; however, I've done
the following test.

I run my patch, which is a rather complex patch, made up of a lot of
abstractions, graphical interface, many send~s and receive~s, throw~s and
catch~s, a lot of tables, a few tabread~s and a couple of tabwrite~s, delay
lines, etc etc etc; a huge patch. However, it is all carefully built in such
a way that every thing that is not actually playing, is switched off, and at
any moment only a small part of the many devices are really being used; the
patch is not cpu-consuming at all.

So, while the patch is running, and almost nothing is playing (something is
playing, so that I can hear an audio dropout), and it is consuming very very
little cpu, I open a new patch window, and I create the following:

[table xxx 300000]

[tabread~ xxx]

[; xxx resize 300000(

Just like you see it: nothing more and no connection.

Every time I click on the message box to resize the newly created table,
there's an audio drop-out.


Any idea of why?
Any workaround?

Thanks
m.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matteo Sisti Sette" <matteo.sistisette at email.it>
To: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 2:55 AM
Subject: audio drop-outs when resizing tables??


Hi,

I am getting dsp drop-outs when I resize a table (say a size of 200000 or
so) if a tabread~ object exists reading from that table, even if I am not
listening to the output of the tabread~.
Even if the tabread~ is in a switch~ed off subpatch/abstraction.

Does PD recompute the whole DSP chain whenever a table (with one or more
tabread~ reading from it) is resized?

I'm talking about resizing tables by sending them a [resize( message.

I tried to isolate it in a simple patch but I couldn't reproduce it. But I
think the only difference with the patch where I am experiencing this is the
complexity of the global dsp graph, that's why I ask if the dsp graph is
recomputed.....

 
 
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