[PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch
Phil Stone
pkstone at ucdavis.edu
Wed Jul 23 18:44:18 CEST 2008
Hi Frank,
Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
>
>
>> The problem Hans and I were discussing relates to storing/loading sssad
>> presets to/from disk. Again, it's not sssad's problem; it's a general
>> issue with Pd. When the dsp service is delayed by long file accesses,
>> dropouts happen.
>>
>
> Yep.
>
> Generally everything that touches the disk, is dangerous. [sssad]
> doesn't touch the disk at all, so it's not guilty here. ;)
>
> I would recommend to preload all textfiles that should be streamed to
> [sssad] into memory. You don't need a ramdisk for that, just enough
> textfile objects. Those come cheap.
>
Six of one, half dozen of the other. :-) That's essentially what I'm
doing with a ram disk: preloading textfile objects into memory. The
nice thing about it, though, is that your Pd object doesn't have to care
- it all looks like a filesytem, whether its from ram disk or hard disk,
so you can use both/either according to your needs.
Best,
Phil
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