[PD] threaded soundfiler

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Mon May 30 02:00:25 CEST 2005


Well, actually, you can upsample the readsf~ to choose much faster speeds...
however, you do have to wait longer for a deterministic result than
you do for a "fast-as"possible" one, such as threading would give you.


On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:34:18AM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> hi miller
> 
> > It would be easy to make an abstraction that uses readsf~ to load
> > soundfiles into tables...
> actually, this is a very weak workaround ... i mean, loading a 3 minutes
> sample to a buffer would take about 3 minutes ... a threaded soundfiler
> would maybe take 3 seconds ... 
> 
> i think waiting 3 seconds would be acceptable for a performance, but 3
> minutes?
> 
> writing a clean implementation of the threaded soundfiler wouldn't be
> that hard and it's a pretty common request, not an exotic feature for a
> realtime performance system like pd ...
> 
> cheers ... tim
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