[PD] Re: metro vs. samm~

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Eric Lyon hat gesagt: // Eric Lyon wrote:

> Cool patch, Frank. Note though that by converting the click signal
> from samm~ into a bang, you are rounding it to the nearest vector. 

Hm, I actually only used click2bang~ to be able to do measurements
with [timer]. In attached patch I removed that part, so the impulses
are directly recorded to samm.wav. It still is in sync with [metro].

> As I showed in my demo at LAC, I can make metro perform poorly in a
> subpatch with a very large blocksize (say 4096), but samm~ will
> perform the same irrespective of blocksize.

But weren't you showing this only for Max? Pd's [metro] doesn't care
about the blocksize at all.

> It is true that samm~ and friends were originally written for MaxMSP
> to deal with its problematic event-level timing. OTOH as my paper
> points out, Pd's audio thread is more susceptible to interruption
> from GUI events than MaxMSP. 

But aren't samm~ etc. also derived from the audio thread, because they
are signal externals? Then they should be just as shaky or solid as
the clock-derived objects metro, delay etc., shouldn't they?

> In addition to convenience, The benefits of samm~ come from its
> integration into a system of signal-level triggering, particularly
> with the soundfile player called player~ which I think has some nice
> features.

Yes, it's definitely a cool collection, and I'm glad to have it in the
CVS soon. ;)

Ciao
-- 
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