Hi, You coud try the --realtime flag for asynchronous table loading (I suppose): --realtime realtime priority mode is switched on which the following effects: all opcode audio file reading/writing is handled asynchronously by a separate thread. all init-pass operations are also performed asynchronously. tarmo Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/B9FA18A1-AC45-4196-9A38-2475D1877B3D@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgetmailspring.com%2F&recipient=Q1NPVU5EQGxpc3RzZXJ2LmhlYW5ldC5pZQ%3D%3D), the best free email app for work On Feb 25 2020, at 7:38 pm, Richard Knight wrote: > The manual says ftgen should only be used globally: are there any options for loading soundfiles to ftables during performance, ie in an instrument? > With short sounds ftgen does seem to work ok during performance, but with longer sounds it causes drop outs/buffer issue/similar. > > > There may be a few other things I could try, the first thing I attempted was to have a ftable created at init time with a fixed size, then write to that ftable later in an instrument, in one k-cycle (ie similar to the FileToPvsBuf udo in the pvsbufread example). However that still had the same issue. > Is that something that might be possible to do somehow? > Csound mailing list Csound@listserv.heanet.ie (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/B9FA18A1-AC45-4196-9A38-2475D1877B3D@getmailspring.com/1?redirect=mailto%3ACsound%40listserv.heanet.ie&recipient=Q1NPVU5EQGxpc3RzZXJ2LmhlYW5ldC5pZQ%3D%3D) https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/B9FA18A1-AC45-4196-9A38-2475D1877B3D@getmailspring.com/2?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.heanet.ie%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwa%3FA0%3DCSOUND&recipient=Q1NPVU5EQGxpc3RzZXJ2LmhlYW5ldC5pZQ%3D%3D) Send bugs reports to https://github.com/csound/csound/issues (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/B9FA18A1-AC45-4196-9A38-2475D1877B3D@getmailspring.com/3?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcsound%2Fcsound%2Fissues&recipient=Q1NPVU5EQGxpc3RzZXJ2LmhlYW5ldC5pZQ%3D%3D) Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > Csound mailing list Csound@listserv.heanet.ie https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND Send bugs reports to https://github.com/csound/csound/issues Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here