[PD] problems with bandlimited_oscillators

[Roman Haefeli]

hello 

i've overseen a big problem with the bandlimited_oscillators
-abstractions, which syntax_tn pointed to.
when the bl oscs are used in several patches and the patch, that was
loaded first, is closed, the other patches' oscs won't work anymore,
because the first patch was the parent of the singleton, that contained
the tables. i didn't think about that when implementing.

i see some options to come around that, but none of them is really nice:

- the instance, that contains the tables, could send a 'ping' in a fixed
intercval and as soon as the ping is not received anymore by the other
instances, one of them creates the tables. the problem is, that it
causes possibly a lot of errors in the time before the new tables are
created. and sending ping-messages regularly is not nice anyway.

- localize the the actually global tables. every synth has its own
tables, so that it doesn't matter, when a synth is closed. it has two
disadvantages: it uses more memory for the tables, because the might be
created several times. also it causes heavier dropouts when a patch is
loaded, because on each patch-load, that contains bl oscs, the tables
are created.

- the user has first to load the bl*_tables-abs in order to create the
tables in advance, before the oscillators are loaded. this needs
additional user action, which is suboptimal

- the first  instance opens the patch, that creates the tables. the
others check, if the tables are already 'on'. the table creating patch
could be opened hidden by sending it a [vis 0( after opening. this
approach needs no additional user interaction, the tables are created
only once and it doesn't matter, when patches are closed. BUT: besides
that this approach seems to look a bit workaroundish and ugly and the
table creating patch remains open until pd is closed, it can't be
implemented without externals (getdir) or it needs an additional
configuration file to specify the path to directory, where the table
creating abs are located. the problem here is, that the [open(-message
to pd wants a path relative to the startup-location (whereas
file-loading objects want a path relative to 
the patch-location). 

everyone of these approaches would work a bit, but none of them is THE
solution. any other ideas?

thanks in advance

roman





	
		
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