[PD] how to avoid (most/many/some) readsf~ dropouts

[Damian Stewart]

Dr. Greg Wilder wrote:
> Matt Barber wrote:
>> Hey Greg,
>>
>> I wonder what would happen
>> if you split your 8-channel files and played them simultaneously as
>> 4-channel soundfiles...  

how long are the files? if they're not so long, and you've got a computer 
with a lot of memory, you might be able to load them all to RAM. if 
they're, say, 10 minutes each, and you have 8, then thats 10*60*44100*8 
channels * 4 bytes (32 bit sample data) = 810MB of data. hrm. perhaps not..

(you can use [soundfiler]'s -maxsize argument to allow it to load enormous 
files without any problems - just say -maxsize <some enormous number>)

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