Michael,

Thanks for the suggestion. And a special thanks to you or whoever seems to
have fixed the -B dependency on ksmps; it is no more.

This is what I find (Csound5 Windows):
Using ASIO4ALL "wide open" (buffer length at max/2048, 4 hardware buffers,
inputs eliminated),
1) on my fast machine, I can use -B1 through -B4096 and get no audio
stutter; use -B0 or no -B and default of 16K+ kicks in, which gives bad
results. So does any number higher than 4096 (which moves to the next power
of two, 8192). Various values for -b seem to make no difference

2) on my slow machine, best (yet still poor - stuttering) performance is
with -B8000 or so. -b here again makes little or no difference. So, still
looking for a good driver solution for slower computers (Pentium running at
about 300MHz). Part of the problem is that ASIO4ALL seems restricted to 44.1
and 48K SR's - so the ordinary stereo soundcard with Csound5 has no option
to go to 22050 (unless you get a native ASIO driver on one of the
multi-channel cards out there; I did manage to pick up a used M-Audio
Quattro which does less than 44100 - my Event Echo Gina does not).

Thanks again for all your help. I still hope an alternative driver (plugin?)
can be developed to help with the above situation. Things are getting better
all the time with Csound5.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gogins" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] -b in Windows Csound5


> What happens when you try it with -B not equal to ksmps, or with various
values of -b?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Hunkins 
> Sent: Mar 27, 2005 3:14 PM
> To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] -b in Windows Csound5
>
> Michael,
>
> Does this mean that -B no longer has to = ksmps?
>
> If not, does it have to be a power of two or anything?
>
> I gather too that you don't recommend using -b on Windows.
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gogins" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] -b in Windows Csound5
>
>
> > I just ran trappedrt.csd with -B512 and ksmps=10, and it sounded fine.
> However, this was without ASIO4ALL.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Art Hunkins 
> > Sent: Mar 26, 2005 9:23 PM
> > To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Cs-dev] -b in Windows Csound5
> >
> > -B works, and makes a difference, when - as currently required - it
equals
> > ksmps in Windows Csound5.
> >
> > -b doesn't seem (when added to -B) to make any difference; specifically,
> it
> > doesn't help "stutter" even when equal to -B. So it's not helpful in
> > reducing "stutter" at all.
> >
> > So is the only way on slower machines to reduce "stutter" to both
> > increase -B and ksmps (thereby, unfortunately, reducing kr)?
> >
> > (Or, of course, get a faster computer - I know. You *should* be able to
> > reduce the SR below 44100, but I'm having trouble with this too.)
> >
> > Art Hunkins
> >
> >
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