Cycling 74 » Topic: send & receive vs. patch cords

send & receive vs. patch cords

nycpntr@yahoo.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:46:44 +0000

is there any latency when using send and receive vs. “standard” patch cords?
This question has been bugging me for a few weeks now. should have posted earlier, would not be up at 3:41 lol

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Re: send & receive vs. patch cords

Julien Bayle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:06:03 +0000

send/receive are more CPU consuming than a “standard” patch cord.

I’m trying to find some “rules” for my own use here:

http://www.julienbayle.net/software/maxmspjitter/

if you’re interested.

Re: send & receive vs. patch cords

broc — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:26:48 +0000

Note that MaxMSP alone and M4L behave differently in this regard.

In my experience, with MaxMSP alone there is no latency at all.
You can verify this with the [timer] object.

Re: send & receive vs. patch cords

Julien Bayle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:53:57 +0000

I had to precise something:
- send/receive in the same patch in M4L seems to be ok
- send/receive from a M4L patch to another one consumes CPU (we found that with Ralf Suckow by making this workaround to use 16 midi channels in & out instead of the channel1 limitation : http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=128795

by the way, in the last case, there is no other way to do that… so