Timer CHOP become heavy with external CHOP channel

[kezzardrix]

TimerCHOPWithExternalCHOP.toe (4.7 KB)

I discovered that the Timer CHOP becomes significantly heavy when its Time Control is set to External CHOP Channel. While the timer is running, performance is smooth, but once the Fraction reaches 1 and the timer is left idle, the system gradually becomes heavier over time.

In the attached file, I have included two versions side by side: one set to Locked to Timeline, and the other using External CHOP with me.time.seconds. When checking the Cook Time, it’s clear that the External CHOP version is considerably heavier.

I reported this bug previously, but it still hasn’t been fixed.
This issue is critical for installations and other long-term operations where precise sequence timing is required, so I strongly believe it should be fixed.

TD Version 2023 12370 windows11

[snaut]

Hi @kezzardrix,

thank you for reporting this. The issue had been reported before and we fixed it for an upcoming experimental build

[2023.11880] TimerCHOP high CookTimes

EDIT: This behaviour seems to only occur when the timer is initialised with a length lower then the current timecodeObject pushes. So initialising the timer with 24hours seemes to solve the issue. EDIT 2: This also seems to not respect cycling. I would expect that when the timerCHOP is set to cycle that an overdrive of the external timecode would result in a loop /the length of the timerCHOP EDIT 3: Settings Segments on the timerChop also borks everything up major. When using a ClockChop as t…

cheers
Markus

[kezzardrix]

Hi @snaut.

Thank you for replying to me! And thank you for providing a solution!
I’m also glad to hear that the bug will be fixed!