[PD] Re: PDa and tabread4~

[David NG McCallum]

Guenter,

Ah... I was actually using tabread4~ to do table lookup for waveshaping.
Maybe there's a better way to do that...

Is there a list of PDa differences somewhere that I didn't read?

Cheers,
David
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Guenter Geiger wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> The tabread4~ is one of the objects that act differently than their
> pd version. In PDa the maximum number that you can get out of a
> signal is 8192.0.
> Therefor tabread is not indexed with samples but with milliseconds.
> (Which in turn limits the samples playable to a length of 8.192 seconds).
> 
> In short, if you want to play a second of sound, send
> [0, 1000 1000< to the line~ object connected to tabread4~.
> 
> If you use phasor~ to control tabread~, multiply its output by the
> amount of milliseconds that you want to play, not by the number of
> samples.
> 
> If you still have problems, send me the patch you are using.
> PDa is not comming with all the help files because of these small
> incompatibilities (and, because I would have to redo them because of
> the screen sizes)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Guenter