[PD] Sysex out problems (linux only)

[Alex]

You could try making it so that you don't send sysex messages on every
change.. just poll for changes at a certain rate.. and only sent the
most recent change at that rate?

-Alex

2009/7/17 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/8 Alex <x37v.alex at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I think that pd's midi out doesn't take whole sysex messages though,
>>> you simply send a stream of bytes.  This is how it has been working
>>> for me.  I created an abstraction which takes a list of bytes and
>>> makes it into a sysex message (stream of bytes) [adds the sysex start
>>> and start and then outputs bytes one by one] and it works quite well
>>> for me.
>>
>> If it's your list2sysex abstraction then I have already witnessed and
>> tried it...! So far with not more success than using a comma-separated list.
>>
>>>
>>> Btw, the sysex loopback code [using the software through] that you
>>> sent initially does work for me.. I get the whole message.
>>
>> Hmm! Now I think I will have to try with some reliable midi-out hardware
>> as the the Audigy is rumoured to eat up sysex and my MOTU is going crazy,
>> not to mention that it does jack-midi only and the a2jmidid bridge is not so
>> very good with other than simple and slow tunes.
>
> Now that i'm trying with a Midisport everything is OK.
> Another thing was that i was a bit lost in Yamaha's midi spec for the mu100
> but i've found it out.  ;)
>
> However now i see that pd's performace is becoming really waving as i'm
> tring to pump out more midi data.
> My old-new questions would be:
> - Provided that a knob is directly driving a sysex pattern which spits out
> way more data than necessary, who do i best slow down my data, staying
> realtime? I guess i shall drop some of it somehow, or i shall kinda resample
> the datastream. Could you Sirs recommend an economic way to do this?
> - My machine is a moderate powerhouse (Opteron 148 @2200, 4G), my kernel is
> rt and audio in pd is off however performance is waving, and my simple
> sequencer is becoming unstable. What are the crucial points of keeping the
> patch 'fast', where do you think i generally lose the most cpu?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andras
>
>
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