SynthDef:send should write large defs to temp file instead of synthDefDir

[Tim Walters]

Since the whole idea of SynthDef:send is to avoid caching the .scsyndef
file, shouldn't it write to and load from a temporary file when a def is
too large to send, rather than caching it? I do a lot of automatic
SynthDef generation that often creates large defs, and as a result I
sometimes have to wait quite a while when booting the server for the old
cruft to load (plus I now have stale defs on the server).

// boot server, then execute this
(
SynthDef(\foo, {
Out.ar(0, Mix.fill(500, FSinOsc.ar(ExpRand(50, 8000)).dup))
}).send;
)

// --> WARNING: SynthDef foo too big for sending. Retrying via synthdef file

// quit server
// boot server

// warning again
// WARNING: SynthDef foo too big for sending. Retrying via synthdef file

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[Tim Walters]

Um, don't play that def. I forgot to scale the amplitude.

Post by Tim Walters
Since the whole idea of SynthDef:send is to avoid caching the
.scsyndef file, shouldn't it write to and load from a temporary file
when a def is too large to send, rather than caching it? I do a lot of
automatic SynthDef generation that often creates large defs, and as a
result I sometimes have to wait quite a while when booting the server
for the old cruft to load (plus I now have stale defs on the server).
// boot server, then execute this
(
SynthDef(\foo, {
Out.ar(0, Mix.fill(500, FSinOsc.ar(ExpRand(50, 8000)).dup))
}).send;
)
// --> WARNING: SynthDef foo too big for sending. Retrying via
synthdef file
// quit server
// boot server
// warning again
// WARNING: SynthDef foo too big for sending. Retrying via synthdef file
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