[PD] signal / message

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 17:29 +0200, Wolfgang Jäger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What's the best way to convert a signal into a message?
> There are possibilities like snapshot~ or vsnapshot~, but they are not
> accurate. The error they produce when you convert into a message and
> reconvert to a signal (with sig~, line~ or vline~) is clearly audible-

yeah, because you most likely capture not _all_ samples and convert them
to messages. in order to do so, you would have to use [vsnapshot~] and
bang it 44.1 times per milliseconds. [snapshot~] wouldn't work, since it
always captures the first (or last?) sample of the block.

an easier way is to use [pack~] and [unpack~] from zexy. those convert a
signal vector (one block of audio samples) to a list of floats and vice
versa. if you want to have a stream of floats instead of lists, use
[drip]. 

either way you do it, it's going to be expensive.

roman




		
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