[PD] timing question

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> >The second thing, people need to learn then is, that most signal objects 
> >can only be scheduled on block boundaries. So if you send a new 
> >frequency to an [osc~] as a float message, the osc~ will not respond 
> >immediatly, as it has already calculated the next block of samples. So 
> >the new frequency can only be taken into account for the next block 
> >after that. IIR block here means 64 samples always, regardless of block~ 
> >size. But I may be wrong about that.
> 
> I don't think that it would make sense that anything else than the 
> object's effective block size would ever be used in that case.
> ... 
> 
> I haven't tried it though.

You're right - and now I have tried it. Actually everything else
indeed wouldn't make much sense. 

> BTW, to add subblock precision to any float&signal inlet, change the inlet 
> mode from float to signal (e.g. change [*~ 1] to [*~]) and use [vline~] to 
> do a higher-precision kind of [signal~].

This is fine for float messages, but other, meta-messages (reset etc.,
but also bang) sometimes need to be scheduled in a clock-aware
fashion as well, that's when you need the additional work.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__