[PD] vline~, vsnapshot~, etc.

Matt Barber brbrofsvl at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 15:27:51 CEST 2008


> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:00:51 +0200
> From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> Subject: Re: [PD] vline~, vsnapshot~, etc.
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> Hallo,
> Matt Barber hat gesagt: // Matt Barber wrote:
>
>> What does the "v" in [vline~], [vsnapshot~], etc. mean?  Is it also
>> the same in the "vinlet" and "vexpr" object classes?
>
> I don't know vinlet, is this new? vexpr~ is definitely something else.
>


If I'm not mistaken, [inlet] and [inlet~] are members of the same
class "vinlet," which has the two constructors vinlet_new and
vinlet_newsig.  Similarly but somewhat differently, all the
expr/expr~/fexpr~ stuff is collected into a single set of vexp*.c
files.  I didn't mean to say "vexpr", and I guess expr has different
classes underneath so it's not fair to say it's one object class --
but in both of them there's a "several objects collected here" kind of
feel which made me wonder.  Maybe this is all just a coincidence.  I
could see the "v" in "vinlet" standing for "visual" to distinguish it
from the more generic "inlet" class.



> vline~ and vsnaphot~ are variants of line~ rsp. snapshot~ that work
> with so called "clock-delayed messages" to achieve higher timing
> accuracy when receiving messages that originate from clocks, i.e. from
> [metro], [delay], [pipe], ...
>
> This way you can schedule e.g. an envelope to start in the middle of a
> signal "v"ector.
>

Thanks, this explanation makes a lot of sense -- I knew what they did,
but not why they were called v____.

Matt




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