Hi Perry, I thought about doing this but wanted the solution to scale in case the files were really huge or there was an overwhelming number of them. I've noticed that this is a great approach when you need things to happen immediately when they are called, however, the timing in this application is loose so, I'd rather buy the time I need to load the files from the disk on demand than be limited by the size of the cache. I'm assuming that this "cache" is in memory... what are the effective limitations here? Assuming a 64bit OS for now, are we basically just limited by the availability of RAM on the system? Or is are there limits set in the Chuck executable? Best, Mike -- Michael Clemow Artist/Composer/Sound Designer http://michaelclemow.com (he/him) On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:48 PM Perry Cook wrote:

Depending on how HUGE the SndBuf files are, I have often loaded all of the files sequentially at the beginning, before I make any sound at all, into a single SndBuf, not to play them, but to get them into the cache. Then when the time comes to truly load them, they can be zero-disk loads. If they’re too big, this won’t work of course because you’ll exhaust your cache.

PRC

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Greetings Chuckists,

Looking for validation on this before I change many, many lines of code: I'm noticing clicks and pops in running audio when I do something like this:

Machine.add("thingOne.ck"); Machine.add("thingTwo.ck"); Machine.add("thingThree.ck"); Machine.add("thingFour.ck");

and also with Machine.remove(idNum); four times in a row.

Question:

Is this:

Machine.add("thingOne.ck"); Machine.add("thingTwo.ck"); Machine.add("thingThree.ck"); Machine.add("thingFour.ck"); me.yield();

significantly different than this:

Machine.add("thingOne.ck"); me.yield(); Machine.add("thingTwo.ck"); me.yield(); Machine.add("thingThree.ck"); me.yield(); Machine.add("thingFour.ck"); me.yield();

???

The same for sporking shreds four in a row.

Warmly, Mike

-- Michael Clemow Artist/Composer/Sound Designer http://michaelclemow.com (he/him)