[PD] audio dropouts when loading samples
Josh Steiner
joschi at eds.org
Sun Feb 23 23:33:55 CET 2003
awsome, i'm glad to stand corrected on this one i'll have to play with
sfread~ then
eskogen at usfamily.net wrote:
>i've used Pd for interactive performance quite a bit in the past six months
>and this was one of the most irritating problems. my solution was to have
>a series of tables loaded at the start with the first few samples i needed,
>sized to be very large.
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>i then had an abstraction to sfread~ any sounds i wanted to load later on
>into the arrays. sfread~ is threaded, so it doesn't lock up the GUI and
>audio cause dropouts. this would stream my samples into the array, then
>let me know when the samples was streamed completely. as long as my tables
>were large enough, it was no problem.
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>>AFAIK there is no way around it for now, if i were you i would just
>>preload all the samples you may want to use each into its own array and
>>then at performance time choose which array you read from. how well
>>this will work out of course depends on how many samples you need.
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>>-josh
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>>Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
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>>hi,
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>>has any one come up with a solution to the problem of audio dropouts when
>>loading wav files into tables? i'm going to be doing some performance soon,
>>and i'd really like to be able to load these samples without getting
>>dropouts.
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