Re: scsynth.exe vs VoiceMeeter for online teaching

Thanks for your insight!

> Back in the day the Portaudio customizations were introduced to allow
> the MinGW Windows builds to work.
Do you have more details on this? I'm asking because Pd has been built
with MinGW for a long time and we never needed to patch portaudio...

Either way, I think it's a good idea trying to switch back to the
"official" portaudio.

Christof

On 10.05.2020 17:39, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 10. May 2020, at 03:04, [email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> "SuperCollider uses a custom version of portaudio, so the problem
>> might be there." --
>> https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/2742#issuecomment-505463694
>
> Back in the day the Portaudio customizations were introduced to allow
> the MinGW Windows builds to work. They are a collection of small
> patches spread over various Portaudio forks made for that purpose.
> Since SCWin is VS only now (for which the SC-build always worked fine
> with vanilla Portaudio) it sounds reasonable to switch back to
> vanilla... at least to give it a try to see if it makes any difference
> in the Jack question. But mind you that in the past it was the
> MinGW-build that actually worked with Jack, while the 64-bit VS-build
> had that problem.
>
> Best
> .r.
>