@lacuna said:

Why is there the „sleep-time“ of PD? For energy-saving??????
This seems to slow down the whole process-chain?
Can I control this with a startup flag or from withing PD? Or only in the sources?

Not sure, would be interested to know too. I just see this flag on linux:
-nosleep -- spin, don't sleep (may lower latency on multi-CPUs)

@ddw_music Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but this might be interesting: https://www.chnry.net/ch/spip.php?article94

@AllesDings Maybe using a screengrab app, on linux I'm using this:
https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

Cheers

@Seán Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

A long time ago I did a patch that was able to keep the same loudness (perceptible) when applying a FX. The most obvious FX was a distortion. I lost the patch and I tried to redo it using env~ but it's not working like before.

So something like that:

[inlet~]
|      |
|      [check loudness average]
[FX (distortion)]
|
[apply same loudness as inlet~]  
|
[dac~]

Of course sometimes it's good to have a boost in loudness when applying a distortion, so I will fine-tune this method. Maybe I should consider using a compressor instead?

Thanks

Basic captcha is in place, but I think I need to change it from time to time...
@whale-av you're now an admin, thank you so much for all the support (> 2k posts)!

@whale-av When talking about cpu, I always think about the frequency of the Apollo Guidance Computer: 2.048 MHz.

@cfry Pd is still 32bit only. VCV-rack = very cool piece of software but yeah might be a little bit cpu intensive.

The idea is to use a light window manager, but with a realtime kernel, that would be the best setup. I am not aware of such distribution (I recall vaguely a distribution named puppy but looks dead to me). It's always possible to install a realtime kernel on top of xubuntu but not easy AFAIK.

Ubuntu Studio is your best bet, it use xfce have realtime kernel.

As for pd, I would install purr data, but of course using vanilla is really easy too if you know how to build.

@anibalzorrilla You can try to install the dev package:
sudo apt install librtaudio-dev