[PD] stability of PD on Windows?

Christof Ressi christof.ressi at gmx.at
Fri Sep 27 20:09:01 CEST 2019


You should aways specify the pd version when you need help, especially if it is a non-standard one.

Christof

> Gesendet: Freitag, 27. September 2019 um 19:55 Uhr
> Von: "Scott R. Looney" <scottrlooney at gmail.com>
> An: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> Betreff: Re: [PD] stability of PD on Windows?
>
> thanks for the input! i had forgotten about asio4all actually. i was using
> a version of PD compiled by CEAMMC which looked like it had support for
> ASIO but it seemed to be very unstable and caused the app to crash or stall
> and never gave clear sound. so i switched back to 64 bit vanilla and tried
> Lucas's settings and i'm getting pretty fast response so far. checking to
> see whether the timeout happens on audio or MIDI just leaving it up. so far
> it's a measurable improvement.
>
> best,
> scott
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:40 AM Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:24 PM Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> > For me the audio is distorted unless I also tick "Use Callbacks".
> >>
> >> Really, even if you use an ASIO driver? I never had the experience that
> >> "Use Callbacks" improves things, on the contrary. Also, it's worth noting
> >> that with "Use Callbacks", the "delay" parameter doesn't do any thing, the
> >> latency can only be set with the ASIO block size.
> >>
> >
> > I don't know which ASIO driver I'm using, maybe it came with the interface
> > (I selected "ASIO:Focusrite USB 2.0 Audio Driver" in the dialog). I tried
> > various delays with no callbacks and now I get no distortion with a delay
> > of 11 or more and block size 64. With Delay less than 11 the audio is
> > chopped up.
> > Without callbacks, I get clicks and dropouts occasionally if I do things
> > with the mouse. That's why I assumed it was the better choice. (Doesn't
> > audio processing always use callbacks anyway? Otherwise the program must
> > sit in a loop serving samples. What callbacks are these?)
> >
> > Martin
> >
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