Good info, thanks!

Unfortunately, I produce a lot and I know for the fact, that 5ms difference is perfectly audible if you deal with sharp transients. If you have two tracks of sounds meant to play together with prominent transients and peaks, 5 ms drifting would create a huge sonic difference.

I will try the PDvst and see how stable and usable it is. I just can't bring myself to install and set it up properly, yet.

Thank you for the info.

5 ms is quite a lot, in my opinion (as it could create a different feel in music when a lot of tracks is involved, or when transient control is the key).

I still have not tried setting up PD VST but I suppose it should be the tightest way of generating MIDI into a DAW. What you think?

I simply need to send tight MIDI events and tight control events (FX automations, etc) to a DAW that will record it. I want to jam with algorithms in PD and be assured that it will be recorded exactly as I heard it during a jam. I would also like my DAW to be in sync with PD, but that is a huge problem...

@tomchaossen said:

and by the way... not only in windows i changed to linux to get finally full control over what my system does, but still got a long list of things that have to be changed to be used as a serious "production tool"

Can you name a few for a Windows user? This is quite demotivating to read, though...

Oh, I see! This makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Gilberto.

I will have to come up with a different solution.

Thank you, Tom, I will check your suggestions.

However, I am afraid syncing PD to an external clock (at least in Windows) will produce even more inaccuracies because the data have to be sent between two applications (and through the OS). Or am I mistaken?

I can give it a try, though.

Hi, guys,

can anyone please examine this simple patch and explain why is it causing hanging notes? I already tried few things with it and found out that when I disable adding of the random numbers, the note offs are working fine.

So what is wrong? I believe the data flow order should be fine.

This is the patch: HangingNotes.zip

Thanks!

My issues are on Win7 Home Premium SP1.

I am, too, very unsatisfied with MIDI timing and stability in PD. It is my major concern and major argument for purchasing Max. I have not decided yet, though, as I still hope there is something that could be done in order to fix MIDI in/out behaviour in PD.