Re: [Osw-users] first impressions

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Amar wrote:
> The answer is mileage varies depending on hardware, OS version, system
> configuration, etc.  For my own work (which includes live performance), the
> windows version has been extremely stable of late, running for multiple
> hours w/o a crash.

this is good to know, i had the impression osw is just not ready for 
serious work, but it seems to have problems only with my setup.

>  Latency under windows depends on the audio device and
> driver you are using - my general sense has been I can get around 20-30ms
> gesture-to-output latency with unsophisticated DirectSound drivers using
> Win2K or WinXP (I don't recommend an earlier version of Windows).
> 
> Could you provide me your OS, CPU and soundcard info, as well as an example
> patch that crashes or causes the high latency?  This would be extremely
> helpful.

i experience the high latency with every patch. i have a windows 2000 
machine (latest service pack) with an rme digi96/8 soundcard (more pro 
than consumer). i guess it has something to do with the directsound 
drivers as the asio drivers work much better with other software, 
although other apps don't crash with directsound.

i cannot reproduce the crashes in osw, it just crashes sometimes.

> The Linux version has more promise in my opinion for consistent low-latency
> performance.  I get lower latency w/ Linux + ALSA, but occasionally the OSW
> linux interface flakes out - others have had different experiences and may
> wish to comment further.

as soon as i found a tcl rpm with threading enabled or manage it to 
compile a rpm by myself i will test it. but windows is my primary platform.

p.s.: does osw also work with newer tcl version (8.3 or 8.4)?