[maxmsp] Re: Latency interrupting Max/MSP performance

ok, some more details - I am getting the patch to detect thresholds: with amplitude, it looks for a specified volume increase in a fixed period of time (250 ms) in order to detect attacks which are used to trigger events, delays etc. 
With pitch, the fft calculates the most prominent frequency in each frame and if this passes fixed thresholds it also triggers events. Only the problem is that the threshold detection seems to occasionally miss even quite obvious changes in amplitude and pitch.