After a long time I am looking into Pdef/Pbind again and notice that with default s.latency (0.2), I get considerable jitter of up to 0.5 seconds when I am doing other things on the machine like opening a helpfile in the IDE, or browsing the web.
I wonder if this common behaviour or if I am doing something wrong (apart from increasing the latency)?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts
Here’s some super simple test code that results in occasional late messages (see below)
(
SynthDef(\sine, { arg out, freq, attack=0.01, decay=1, amp=1, pan;
var snd, env, u=1;
env = EnvGen.kr(Env.perc(attack, decay), 1, doneAction:2);
snd = SinOsc.ar(freq, 0, amp * env);
OffsetOut.ar(out, Pan2.ar(snd, pan));
}).add;
)
Pdef(\a, Pbind(
\instrument, \sine,
\note, Pseq((0..11), inf),
\octave, Pseq([5, 6], inf),
\decay, 0.1,
\dur, 0.25
)).play
late 0.042076207
late 0.515819082
late 0.265819082
late 0.015819082
late 0.067156624
late 0.043025562
late 0.053317708
late 0.053405208
late 0.245571395
late 0.016904812
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