[PD] audio dropouts when loading samples

[Matthew Nish-Lapidus]

what happened to the threaded verison of soundfiler that's on that same
site?  it's an old version of pd, is there any way somebody could update
0.36 with the threaded soundifler?

m at .
www.ekran.org



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From: <eskogen at usfamily.net>
To: "Josh Steiner" <josh at vitriolix.com>
Cc: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [PD] audio dropouts when loading samples


> oops.. i actually use readsf~, which i think is bundled in 0.36?
>
> regarding a "threaded version of soundfiler", i believe that's what
readsf~  is supposed to be? see: http://www.akustische-kunst.org/puredata/
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> the question remains though, what if you just have to play back the tail
end of a wav file? right now i have to wait for readsf~ to stream in the
whole thing ... i suppose there are offset commands and whatnot, but it
seems like a real hassle, atm.
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> >awsome, i'm glad to stand corrected on this one ;)  i'll have to play
> >with sfread~ then :)
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> >eskogen at usfamily.net wrote:
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> >>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,
> >>>
> >>>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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