[PD] ipoke~ ?

[Charles Henry]

I'm not sure I understood the whole thread so far... let me back up:

I'm not sure that you want to write samples of a function to the table
for each sample you want to write.

You start with two signals (blocks of N), one is the data you want to
write, the other is the indexes where you want the variables written.

The data you want to write is an evenly spaced signal with spectrum on
-1/2 < f < 1/2.

Depending on how closely spaced the indexes are, you get aliasing on
side, and on the other you have more spectrum than you need.

Close together (data written to buffer slower than normal speed):
aliasing.  The signal that we're writing to the table has fewer points
than what's needed to cover the spectrum of the input signal.

If all you did was write 4 points from a constant interpolator, you'd
still have the aliasing.

Far apart (writing faster):  There's evidently a possibility of a
perfect reconstruction because you've got more points than you need.
I think that can be done with sinc functions, and then you can choose
finite-length interpolator functions as approximations.  This is the
easy part of the problem, if you just ignore how potentially expensive
it is :)

What I see happening is that you when you write-then-read with
tabwrite4~ / tabread4~, you get back a sampling of convolving each of
the interpolation functions and the input data. The effect of each
sample spreads out to cover 8 samples on the output.