[PD] advice on loading 300 samples

[sven]

At 02:22 14.06.2006, you wrote:
>>Is it necessary to have EVERY note sampled
>
>not really, if i go with soundfont i will skip some (thanks!). but i 
>feel brutal about it - to push a little (cpu glitches are wonderful) 
>- i will try to load all the samples on loadbang.
>
>i am working with jack, pd 0.39.2 on linux @ 44100 / 128 buffer on a 
>2.4 - P4. if i go for [soundfiler] what should i know about the 32 / 
>24 bit expension? or maybe it's the spec of the samples?

you should know that data in tables in pd is always stored as 32bit floats.
so if you have 600MB of 16Bit samples 16bit they will take up 1.2GB RAM
once loaded into pd.
but theres the iem16 external which has offers a 16bit table and
suitable tabread  / write etc.

sven.