[PD] is it wise to to have a smaller blocksize in a subwindow?

[J. Scott Hildebrand]

      from what i've recently learned, you should probably only modify
blocksize in subwindows or abstractions. this is because the dac~ only
works with 64 sample chunks, and thus you need to always convert back to
64 sample blocks.

      i'm not sure if i got your question right, but one good advantage to
having a larger parent blocksize is that you can easily do the
overlap-and-add method. this is (i think) because if you're throwing
arrays around within the patch, if you tabsend an array of (for example)
128 that's in an abstraction with blocksize 128... to another
array of size 256 within an abstraction with blocksize 256, then the last
half of that array will be zeros. this is good for when you do fast fourier
transforms and the overlap-and-add method.

      i'm not positive about whether arrays are initialized to have all
zeros or not, but i'm pretty sure that this is the idea. i'll get to IIR
filtering soon enough so make sure you figure it out so you can help me!
so far i've only really looked at FIR algorithms.

                                       scott



On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Andreas Sumerauer wrote:

> I am playing around with IIR filters and I would like to know if it
> makes any sense if the blocksize in the parent window is bigger than
> that of the subwindow. I assume that the Blockwise calculation anyway
> can't be done properly because the subpatch always breaks the mold.
> Is there still a reason to keep the bigger blocksize? (for waveguide
> synthesizers, where the filter is used in a feedback path)
>
> Thanks
>
> Andreas
>
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