This isn't a very good answer, but the "real" timing jitter in Pd can often be rediced by reducing audio buffering, In particular if you don't need audio at all you might be able to run Pd -nosound -udiobuf 5 -slepgrain 1 or something like that.
cheers Miller On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Jean-Marie Adrien wrote: > Hi list > Im trying to cope with the MOTU Micro lite USB Midi driver under OsX Mountain > Lyon. > The stacking process of the driver is weird, means data are totally corrupted > if they arrive too quickly to the interface, which does not happen with OsX > Lyon, although MOTU announces full compatibility with OsX ML, anyway. > > I'm trying to make my own fifo from within PD, and, in this process, at some > point I have to dump values out of the stack at "regular" time intervals. > The straightforward implementation uses a metronome object, say with period > 10 msec. > > The problem is that the metronome object is not precise enough, and it bangs > erratically with time intervals within 0 to 20 msec, as measured with the > (realtime) object, and this screws again the midi interface (everything else > normal, dsp 10%). > > Is there an academic way to get a steady flux of bangs with short period ? > Delay ? > Hack some audio for control purposes ? (use a phasor~ ? :) > Thanks > Jm > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
