i built an MSP external for a friend back in 2010, and now it is apparently exhibiting bad behavior on max 6 / Lion (nasty clicks in audio.) originally built against the 5.1.6 SDK… not sure what’s changed.

i don’t personally have Lion; i’m not a big mac user these days. wondering if anyone has any insight or could even (big favor i know) recompile the thing, which is here:

https://github.com/catfact/poki/

?? many thanks!
- ezra b

There were problems we discovered with buffer~ access late in Max 5′s life cycle which we addressed in Max 6. If you look at the appendix of the Max 6 SDK it documents how to update code for safer/easier/better access.

Additionally, to host Max 5 audio objects in Max 6 incurs additional CPU cost as the object has to be wrapped with a conversion layer. Not sure if this extra overhead is exacerbating the problem.

Side note: you have a gensym() call at line 253 in your perform method. Not sure you want an expensive call like this. For a case like this it is recommended that you call gensym() somewhere else (e.g. in main()) and cache the t_symbol pointer it returns. Then pass that cached symbol at line 253.

If you have a patcher that reliably produces the problem, I might be to take a look at it sometime…

best,
Tim

so would you foresee any obvious obstacles to compiling against / testing with max 6.0.4, from my aging and neglected os x partition – 10.5.x, xcode 3.4.x?

apparently the help patcher from github is sufficient to see the bad behavior in Lion.

thanks again! i appreciate the help
-ezra b