[PD] PDDP meeting?  Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca Sat
May 6 20:56:38 CEST 2006  On Sat, 6 May 2006, Arie van
Schutterhoef wrote:  > >when everyone ignores it's weaknesses
("you don't want to load soundfiles > >>clickfree", > -That's
probably why jMax needed at least two cpu's to run 'clickfree'.
jMax's problems were even worse than what you say. The
messagesystem (which we used for video) couldn't run clickfree
either, with hiccups longer than 100 ms! and i'm not sure that
they were fixable by adding an extra CPU. The workaround was to
set [metro] to a very small value and that meant that you
couldn't control the framerate and that logical time became
useless and that the GUI couldn't be used anymore, nor
netreceive and comport. I had to make a show with those hiccups
going on because i *had* to use netreceive and comport. That was
my last show with jMax.  Alex C had switched to Pd because of
those video hiccups and because of my recommendation, and I
wanted to switch just before the show but the mi