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

[Roman Haefeli]

On Mit, 2012-07-04 at 09:16 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:46:20PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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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.
> > 
> I think it's both... my current plan (which I could be talked out of) would
> be to add a new option to keep audio device open regardless of DSP being
> on or off.  Probably jack users will want the option 'on' and most others
> will want it "off".

I was just going to suggest that those could be separate options: DSP
on/off, audio back-end connect/disconnect.

This is great! I am also excited.

Cheers
Roman