[PD] big soundfiles

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Fri Nov 26 08:34:02 CET 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 02:10 +0100, João Pais wrote:
> how about removing the expXXX numbers, and use only concrete floats?

? 
Can you elaborate on this? What are 'expXXX' numbers and what are
'concrete floats'?

Anyway, I think the solution would be to use 64bit float as the index.
In 64-bit Pd, this isn't an issue anymore (or more correct: It will be
with _much_ larger tables).


Roman

>  or is  
> there any software reason that doesn't let that happen?
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Derek Holzer wrote:
> >
> >> And keep in mind that sound quality goes down as file size goes up.  
> >> This is because of the interpolation. You might do better cutting your  
> >> file up and putting it into several different arrays.
> >
> > Oh, and isn't it the case that [tabread~] 0.42 has an extra inlet for  
> > the purpose of getting more precision ? The read point is now relative  
> > to a message-rate setting.
> >
> > If you have to play a very large file in RAM, you can do it by emptying  
> > your signal-rate counter into a message-rate counter that takes care of  
> > the big digits while the signal-rate counter keeps on taking care of the  
> > small digits and fractions. (do you want an example ?)
> >
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