[bang~]-question (was:[PD] measuring time between audio events (clicks))

Tim Blechmann tim at klingt.org
Wed Feb 14 13:17:37 CET 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:58 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hi all
> 
> as i understand the object [bang~], it should output a 'bang' on each
> dsp-cycle. this seems to work with blocksizes >= 64, but apparently not
> with smaller blocksizes. i made the following patch to measure the time
> between the dsp-cycles:
> 
> [bang~]
> |
> [t b b]
> |     |
> [timer] 
> |
> [nbx ]
> 
> when i put this into a subpatch and set the blocksize to a value < 64
> (e.g. 32, 16, 8 etc.) using the [block~] object, it still measures 1.333
> (pd runs @ 48kHz currently). 
> 
> why is this? is [timer] or [bang~] buggy? do i understand something
> wrong?

iirc, bang~ registers a timer callback. the problem is that the timer
callbacks are only executed every dac block, which is 64 samples.
so running bang~ in subpatch with less than 64 samples, bang~ sets the
samer timer several times, but it's only executed once ...
i came across the same bug some time ago ... fixing it while keeping the
semantic is rather difficult since pd afaict doesn't provide the
required infrastructure ...
filing a bug report is probably a good idea, however i wouldn't rely on
it to be fixed in a reasonable amount of time ...

tim

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