[PD] writing table values as raw floating point

[Roman Haefeli]

hi



"Matthias Blau" <blau_m at web.de> wrote

> I didn't find a possibility to write table values as floats to a binary
> file, although I am almost sure this should exist in standard pd.
> I know I could use soundfiler but I don't want the header, just raw 
> floats.

what do you mean by raw floats? bytes as numbers from 0 to 255? if i 
understand you right, i had once a similar problem: i wanted to write a 
binary file byte by byte. finally i did it with soundfiler, because i 
couldnt find a better solution. since you cannot write 8-bit files with 
soundfiler, i had to convert two values (0-255) into one value (0-65536), 
scale it to -1 - 1, write it into an array, then save it as a 16bit 
wav-file. to get rid of the 44 byte long wav-header, i used the command:

dd if=input.wav ibs=44 skip=1 of=output

the disadvantage of this method is, that you can only write files that have 
an even number of bytes, and that you need a command outside of pd. please 
let me know, if you find a better solution.

roman 


	

	
		
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