[PD] loading samples in arrays

Georg Holzmann grhPD at gmx.at
Sat Jun 2 17:13:27 CEST 2007


Hallo Johannes!

> i am using the tabplay~ object to play out of 48 arrays.
> it takes alot of time to load the samples in the arrays.
> 
> what is the best way to load the samples into the arrays in less time?
> is it more efficient to use 4 channel audio files with soundfiler?

I don't know but I don't think that this will make much difference - it 
takes some time till you copy the data in memory ...
However, you can also try to stream it directly from the harddisk with 
[readsf~] - then you don't have to load them at all !

LG
Georg




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