[maxmsp] Big set - CPU strategy ?

Hi,

with Max5 you can change dinamically the subpatch included in a poly~.

So you can use two main poly~ where you change the subpatch.

Don't know if this applies to video too.

All the best

-- 
Alessandro Fogar

http://www.fogar.it

2008/5/1 Philippe Jelli <philippe at mutin.org>:
>
> Hi list.
>
> And quite new to MAx (6 months now) and need some assistance on a particular point.
>
> I'm currently working on the musical part of a dance performance.
>
> I have 10 different sets (patches). They all deal with real-time audio or video processing, using contact mics and/or video tracking.
>
> Now the problem is: they all work fine independently, but if i want the audio to be continuous between the scenes  (making transitions), i need to load and run at least 2 patches at the same time (1 + 2 / 2 + 3 / 3 + 4 etc...)
>
> So I tried different approaches for this, the first is one mega-patch containing all ten subpatches, and muting (with mute~) all unused patches successively, but even whith muting, i have severe audio dropouts and clicks.
>
> The other approach was having a "control center" patch loading externally all the patches one after the other with always 2 sets open at the same time. (Opening nr 3 closes nr 1, opening nr 4 closes nr 2, etc...) but i also have (sometimes long) audio interruptions during loading times.
>
> So... i'm wondering if you can share some knowledge to help me solve this issue.
>
> (And oh yes... i also have to run Ableton Live in parallel to route some audio back and forth. But the problem arise even without Live)
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Philippe
>
> max 4.6.3 with MBP 2,33 dualcore 2 Gb Ram
>
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