[PD] Cannot change blocksize (Mac OS X)

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 22:00:19 CEST 2016


out of curiosity, when is it needed in other OS?
cheers

2016-07-05 16:27 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>:

> Hi all -
>
> I should just disable block-size setting on Mac.  It's never needed.
> (There's
> an I/O  blocksize control in Max/MSP that actually sets latency; this is
> done
> in Pd using the "Delay" setting instead.)
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:08:24PM -0700, Jesse Mejia wrote:
> > I experience this problem as well. Would love a solution.
> >
> > > On Jul 5, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Mikkel Gravgaard <mikkelg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I cannot set the audio blocksize of Pure Data. It defaults to 64,
> which works.
> > >
> > > If I open the settings and change it to e.g. 256, pressing save does
> > > nothing, and I cannot close the window and have to force-quite Pd.
> > >
> > > I am running Pd-0.47-1 on OS X 10.11.5 on a Macbook. I have tried both
> > > the 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Pd. No libraries installed.
> > >
> > > I have also tried running Pd from command line with option -blocksize
> > > 256, in which case Pd does not start (the icon just jumps up and down
> > > in the launch bar).
> > >
> > > I have also tried changing the default value of 64 to 256 in the
> > > .plist file. Pd does boot in this case, but if I enable DSP, it stops
> > > responding.
> > >
> > > I was asked in the Pd forums to try this mailing list.
> > >
> > > Any hints?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mikkel Gravgaard
> > >
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