[PD] Bad sound quality when playing .wav file during a GEM sequence

[Chris Clepper]

Run a second copy of Pd.  On the Mac, option drag the Pd app to make a
copy.

Use netsend/netreceive to communicate between the two copies of Pd: one for
GEM and one for audio.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Claire O'Connor <oconnc26 at tcd.ie> wrote:

> It's still the same when they are on different drives, I'm afraid. It's
> only jumpy and glitchy when the GEM window is open but that's necessary
> so...
>
> Is there any way for PD to trigger an action in an external program? So,
> have the soundfile in Audacity, for example, and have PD trigger it to play
> on that?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 19 April 2014 22:39, Dominic Melville <dcamelville at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Could it be as simple as disk access? Reading the wav from the same drive
>> as the image files causing the jumping and glitching?
>>
>> If there's any way to try playing the wav from ram in the same patch
>> it'll show that up straight away.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>> On Saturday, April 19, 2014, Claire O'Connor <oconnc26 at tcd.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I am currently trying to play a .wav file through readsf~ while a
>>> sequence of events are being triggered within GEM (pix_film and pix_image)
>>> but the sound quality is awful - very jumpy, glitchy and almost impossible
>>> to hear what it is actually meant to be. Has anyone any ideas as to how
>>> this problem may be solved? I've tried having the sound come from a
>>> different patch but that hasn't worked.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be very helpful :)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>
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