Hi,

I recently switched from Windows XP to OS X, I heard great things about Apple's core audio... but I can't get past 15ms latency without introducing crackles. I have macbook (2Ghz core 2 duo, 1GB RAM and use the built in audio).

How is your latency?

What soundcard/drivers are you using?

Bye,

Lech

Doesn't anyone use puredata on Apple Mac?

Lech

yeah i do. but not ever cared about latency. i think mine is about 50ms or whatever is standard.

Mac OS 10.4.8, PowerBook G4 667mHz, Edirol FA-101. Can get around 16ms latency with occasional underruns and not doing anything too fancy. The UI refreshes at a very slow rate. I would have thought that you could run a lot faster on a new Intel Mac.

Are you using the universal binary version of Pd (native support for both Intel and PPC)? Try downloading it from here (the one that says i386 and ppc):
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html

I tried the 0.40-2 universal binary, but it didn't make a difference.

I get 2ms latency on most of my other music software on the MacBook...

Lech

12ms on a 15" 1.5GHZ PPC(10.4.8) running PD 39.2T7 which is triggering (occaisonal 2-3 minute) stereo audio files and passing midi to a VJ application(quicktime movies 640*480 Sorenson 25 fps, no effects), svhs PAL out(640*480 out via VGA during performance) all media running off a RAM-disk.

I'll take it up to 20 to be safe for performance.