[PD] the max size of array?

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Mon Apr 7 17:48:13 CEST 2003


Alternatively, just specify "-maxsize 1000000000" (or whatever) in the "read"
message.  Oops, still no usable help window for read/writesf... I've got that
in the pipe for the next release.

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:02:00AM +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Hi Jay,
> the first thing that i usually change after downloading PD is this array
> size limit. I don't know why it's there at all.
> If you have the possibility to compile PD for your platform simply change
> src/d_soundfile.c line 830 (in version 0.36) to a value of your choice.
> For your wav file: Don't forget that a 16 bit file will be blown up to
> double size (32 bits) and will then take up 304 MB. It depends on your RAM
> size if that can be handled. Don't use a graphical array! The graphical
> representation can't handle this large arrays properly.
> It depends on what you want to do, but it may be better to use soundfiler
> and load in only a portion of the file at a time.
> 
> best greetings,
> Thomas
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jie Ma" <jma3 at student.monash.edu>
> To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 4:19 PM
> Subject: [PD] the max size of array?
> 
> 
> > hi list.
> >
> > i got a 152Mb wav file (16bit 44100Hz) to be processed by pd array. it
> > seems 4E6 array size only is able to handle about 5%~10% of the file.
> > and pd jams when i try to lift the x-range of the array to something
> > like 8E7. is there a limit of the array here?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
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