Re: [livecode] livecoding with a bp2-alike thing

From: Dave Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:39:46 -0000 (GMT)

> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 02:18 +0100, Fredrik Olofsson wrote:
>> er, with sc i think you'll need to create the glitches yourself ;-)
>> emulation? top of this page is an ugen and a class that might help...
>> http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/pages/code-sc.html
>> no seriously, sc server is a hard one to trick. allocating big chunks
>> of memory will get you some hickups but not particularly interesting as
>> glitches. on os x the server is pretty hard to crash i found.
>> (sc lang on the other hand has a lot to offer. eg just opening
>> helpfiles or sorting big arrays makes the timing (AppClock) all shaky.
>> but you only run sc server, right?)
>
> Thanks for this... I am using sclang, haven't got far with Drape's
> haskell sc bindings yet. Maybe it's sclang that I'm crashing? I'll
> have a look later.
>
> I think for live computer music a better failure mode is to glitch,
> rather than to stop working completely.

is it using jack? there is a soft mode switch for live use, although I can
still get it to disconnect my clients from time to time under really heavy
loads...

cheers,

dave
Received on Mon Nov 27 2006 - 11:44:04 GMT

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