pencilina

For some reason sfplay randomly introduces bursts of noise into its audio stream. I'll have a file looping and then out of nowhere I get brutal high level bursts of white noise. I experienced this before on both xp and PPC. I thought it might be a case of running into header info or something like in a patch that was jumping from file to file and changing pitches so I figured I might have been pushing its limits but the patch I'm currently working on is a fairly simple patch in my G5 with sfplay looping files. Its outbursts are so random it seems like a bug.

I found a thread about this from '06 saying it was a known issue on intel macs:

https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=78574&rid=0&srch=sfplay+noise#msg_78574

https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=100382&rid=0&srch=sfplay+noise#msg_100382

but didn't follow up as my patch was fairly complicated,

very-annoying-sfplay-noise-bursts

On 17 mars 08, at 07:32, Bradford Reed wrote:

> I found a thread about this from '06 saying it was a known issue on 

Are you running Max 4.6.3. As it seems the issue as been fixed there. 

Anyhow if you still use sound designer 2 file format, I would really 

recommend converting those sound file to a more cross plateform 

supported file format like AIFF or WAVE. Sooner or later you'll have 

> I found a thread about this from '06 saying it was a known issue on  
> intel macs:
>
> https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=78574&rid=0&srch=sfplay+noise#msg_78574

Are you running Max 4.6.3. As it seems the issue as been fixed there.  
Anyhow if you still use sound designer 2 file format, I would really  
recommend converting those sound file to a more cross plateform  
supported file format like AIFF or WAVE. Sooner or later you'll have  
to do that.

Thanks for your response. I am using 4.6.3 and AIFFs. I re-installed 4.6.3 just to make sure. Interestingly my sfplay~.mxo is dated 9/22/06 so it seems like maybe the 4.6.3 update (built 5/16/07 according to C74's DL page) didn't address the problem for PPC. Would any of the kind awesome folks at C74 like to chime in on this?

All the besssssssschhhhhhhhhts [that was supposed to be white noise],

Thanks for your response. I am using 4.6.3 and AIFFs. I re-installed 4.6.3 just to make sure. Interestingly my sfplay~.mxo is dated 9/22/06 so it seems like maybe the 4.6.3 update (built 5/16/07 according to C74's DL page) didn't address the problem for PPC. Would any of the kind awesome folks at C74 like to chime in on this? 

Try deleting sfplay~.mxo and reinstalling 4.6.3

ya Andrew... very good call mang! I let the installer make a new externals folder and then added those to my old ones (replacing older files) and all should be well. Looks like a lot of newer creation dates on 'em. You'd think the installer would replace old .mxos with new ones. This is probably something for others to be aware of when updating. The good news is I still have all my third party externals as I remember previous installers would wipe the whole folder. This list is THE BEST!

very annoying sfplay noise bursts