[PD] MIDI timing FIFO overflowed receiving sysex

[mario buoninfante]

Hi All,

I'm trying to record a bunch of sysex received from and external machine 
(sequencer/synthesizer).

I tried using both [midiin] and [sysexin], and I've always got the same 
result: "MIDI timing FIFO overflowed" printed on the console, and a lot 
of data missing (I'm sure about that, cause I know how big the stored 
file should be, and also cause it's an external flash dump, so I should 
be able to send back this sysex to the unit, but when I do this the unit 
gets stuck).

I know for sure that the unit is sending sysex at a really fast rate, as 
fast as it can (at the moment I don't remember how fast exactly, but I 
can double check).

is there a way to setup a kind of buffer? something that allows you to 
accumulate this data before they pass through [midiin] or [sysex].

I'd like to give some context (and believe me, I don't really like this 
kind of comparisons, at all!).

as it's something I'm doing for work reasons, I had to try using MaxMSP 
and I ended up with something that works. the only thing I had to do is 
changing the parameter related to the "scheduler time interval". so, 
what happens there is the following: Unit sends these messages as fast 
as it can, MaxMSP receives and accumulates all the messages, and pass 
them to the patch one after another at a slower rate then the Unit's one.

do we have something similar on Pd?


cheers,

Mario