[PD] strange message at startup

[matteo sisti sette]

> On a Windows machine, whenever I start PD Vanilla 0.41.2, I get the
> following message on the pd console at startup:
>
> "Separate audio device choices not supported; using sequential devices".
>
> However, this is nonsense because I am using ONE input and ONE output
> device, with 2 channels each.


Furthermore, it is followed by a "resyncing audio" message (just at
startup), even if DSP has not been turned on yet!!

And as soon as I load a patch, which has no dsp objects, and without
enabling dsp, I get TWO "resyncing audio" messages.

Then I get more "resyncing audio" messages every once in a while for
example whenever I minimize and restore a patch window full of gui
objects. It does not happen with "small" patches however.....

Again, I am testing this with a big patch full of gui and things but
with no ~objects at all, and without even turning on dsp.....


I don't really understand the resyncing audio stuff - I guess it would
imply an audio dropout on an it-does-have-dsp-objects patch... I do
indeed experience "resyncinc audio" messages on dsp-doing-stuff
patches, but usually I see them after they have appeared and I can't
tell if they are generating dropouts (if thet are, it may be just a
one-block-time silence).

I can't understand what causes those audio resyncs and how to avoid them.

...... any suggestions?

NOTE: I do get "resyncing audio" even with only 2-channel in/out and
non-asio, as mentioned before.

I'm always on WinXP

Thanks

P.S. someone may suggest using ASIO drivers; however in some situation
I CAN'T use ASIO drivers. Sometimes I need to use an external MOTU
with 4 input channels and I found NO WAY to get it working with asio
with all 4-in and 2-out working (either some input or some output or
both don't work). There's an old thread of mine about that in the
archives with details. The only way I can get a motu to work with
multiple inputs in PD is to use non-asio AND turn on an option in
Motu's configuration called something like "legacy mode" that makes PD
to be able to recognize its several input channels in standard mode).


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