[PD] MIDI timing FIFO overflowed receiving sysex (pt.2)

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 00:00:03 CEST 2018


a couple things:

* Do you have a patch or set up that causes this?

* Does it happen only based on a certain length or does it only happen to a certain message?

* Can you send me the raw byte values for the message?

> On Jun 16, 2018, at 9:02 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> From: Mario Buoninfante <mario.buoninfante at gmail.com <mailto:mario.buoninfante at gmail.com>>
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> Hi,
> 
> few months ago I was writing about some issues sending big sysex to Pd.
> Miller suggested the following
> 
> *If you don't mind recompiling Pd, you can control the MIDI queue size
> *>* by editing this line in s_midi.c:
> *> >* #define MIDIQSIZE 1024
> *> >* I think it has to be a power of 2.  You could make it 0x100000,
> for instance
> *>* (a million-ish).
> *> >* To easily recompile Pd on a Mac, install the developer package (compiler
> *>* chain which I think is now called Xcode), open a shell, Cd to
> *>* Pd-x.app/Contents/Resources/src, edit s_midi.c, and type "make".
> *>
> 
> I tried recompiling both on Linux (Ubuntu Studio 16.04) and MacOS (Sierra)
> but unfortunately without any success. I mean, I've been able to recompile
> it, but the issue's still there. moreover I couldn't find s_midi.c in
> 
> *Pd-x.app/Contents/Resources/src*
> 
> so I had to use the source code.
> basically I'm sending (relatively) big sysex to Pd as fast as possible and
> I noticed Pd drops most of them. I'm collecting few hundreds byte on top of
> thousands.
> did I miss something?
> does anyone experienced something like that? any suggestion?
> 
> cheers,
> Mario

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