[PD] sending large arrays / soundfiles

[carmen]

On Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 10:58:28PM -0500, Kevin McCoy wrote:
> Yeah, OSC is WAAAAY too slow for this, just for the record (I'm sure a lot
> of people could have guessed that)... but it worked...  I'll work on getting
> netjack now.  Thanks again.

were you doing smoething like tabdump->drip->OSCprepend /wavsample ? or were you realy packing it into a binary blob? OSC is a very simple and efficient protocol really.. i cant imagine it takes much logic to decode or encode, seeing as i wrote a full implementation in about 40 lines of TCL..


> 
> Kevin
> 
> On 7/12/06, Kevin McCoy <km.takewithyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Thanks - yes I should be using netjack for this, but I'm dirty and lazy so
> >far on it.  I have gotten OSC to successfully transfer small arrays just
> >now.  I'm just now about to try it with large arrays of sound data...
> >
> >Thanks for the suggestions!
> >Kevin
> >
> >
> >On 7/12/06, carmen <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed Jul 12, 2006 at 08:53:02PM -0500, Kevin McCoy wrote:
> >> > Greetings,
> >> >
> >> > I'm working on doing some granular stuff and whirling the sound around
> >> the
> >> > room via multiple machines (2 outs each).  I want to record sound to
> >> an
> >> > array and then get a copy of that array on each machine (there are 4
> >> > currently) via a LAN.  From what I've read, OSC might not be the most
> >> > efficient way to do this.
> >>
> >> in order of what i'd try:
> >>
> >> OSC burst/nonrealtime transfer of audio buffers in binary blobs: do any
> >> apps do this? is it going to choke liblo and/or pd's implementation? i think
> >> youd just have to try it, or check osc-dev. without the ability to stream or
> >> dump the raw 'bytes' of the buffer inside PD's patcher interface, you'll
> >> have to modify one of the OSC objects to read the table data directly unless
> >> you want to do something really slow like serialize to a bunch of floats
> >>
> >> netjack (via jackd). latency is predictable (you choose)
> >>
> >> streamin~/streamout~ (native) not sure if it reports latency at all
> >>
> >> write tables to disk -> NFS/samba
> >>
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