Getting clicks when recording my patches...any advice?

have you tried using sfrecord~?

someone with more experience might be able to explain why recording to
disk seems to be more stable than using a buffer~...

but I've had good luck using sfrecord~

--Sam

Sam Nichols
http://samnichols.net/

On Feb 11, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Ivan Redman wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> I am simply trying to record my MSP patch while it's running in real-
> time, and I'm fiddling with controls.
>
> Problem is, I keep getting the occasional click. There aren't many,
> but they're there.
>
> Initially I tried recording using the 'What-U-Hear' type feature in
> my internal soundcard (running a Dell Laptop), and recording into
> Adobe Audition. This was pretty bad in terms of clicks (using
> directsound driver in MSP). I can't record using my Echo Indigo io
> (as far as I can tell), as it doesn't have a What-U-Hear function.
>
> So I then tried recording it within Max, again using the What-U-Hear
> function, and plugging an adc~ into a record~ with a large buffer~.
> There were noticably less clicks, but they were still there.
>
> How do other people do this? Am I missing something?
>
> I had a brief play with io vector size in the DSP state window, but
> this didn't seem to help too much. My patch does not have these
> clicks during play-back (only in the recordings).
>
> Cheers!!
> Ivan