[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.43-3 released

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-07-04 13:14, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Keeping the thread talking to the audio back end always running has
> some advantages:
> 
> * The audio card cannot be stolen by other softwares while DSP is
> off * A cycle of turning DSP off and on is much faster, since no
> thread needs to be stopped and started

otoh, releasing the audio backend, allows other software to steal the
audio card.
i think this is a feature not a bug.

> * less prone to re-connect failures as the back-end stays always 
> connected

instead, i think that re-connects should not fail instead.

> * A DSP off-on cycle can be used to increase the speed of dynamic 
> loading of tilde objects / abstractions (now such a cycle is
> always slow and prone to loosing audio)

true.

i think that Pd should definitely have a method to release the audio card.
currently it is really complicated to start Pd in ALSA, then starting
jack outside of Pd and then connect Pd to this instance of jack.

probably a "dummy" audio-backend would help here: this would allow to
separate the DSP on/off functionality from the audio-backends.


gfamsdr
IOhannes
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