MD / MnM (and possibly all others as well:) Maximum on Update Rates for MIDI modulation?

Elektron Gear
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Hello.

So, I write a lot of patches in Pure Data that send midi to my MD and MnM.
I especially love sending a lot of CC messages. Every once in a while, I am sending too much too fast ( I guess),
making the machines freeze up ( and my heart along in the process, it really freaks me out).
I restart the machine then and all is back to normal again.

Are they freezing up because of internal overload?
Or is this just the GUI being forced to work faster than its update rate?
(By that, I mean: Is data sent too fast, so the knobs in the gui freeze up, because they cant keep up?)
If that is the case, is there perhaps any way to override gui usage?
What else could one do about this?

Is this dangerous for the machines at all?
And how can I know how much is too much?

Thanks a lot

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too much is more than you need (or can discern) (or indeed what the device can handle)

thin the data out in PD by programming it better - keep thinning until you generally notice it, then you know where the right lower end is

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Well, you have just over 3kbps to play with, not a lot at all. As @avantronica says, thin your data, send updated values only.

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