[PD] peak amplitude in pd vanilla (was: [env~ ] vs [vsnapshot~ ]: which one is more cpu consuming?)

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
ypatios hat gesagt: // ypatios wrote:

> As I understand it (and hopefully i am not completely wrong..) you don't
> have to 'store' a list and 'then' read again it to find the max magnitude.
> It's as simple as the following:
> 
> (some signal)
> *I*
> *I* [pd metro at samplerate]

Note that [metro] has a lower limit of 1 ms, so you need to make your own metro-abstraction.

> *I*/
> [vsnapshot~ ]
> |
> [abs ]
> |
> [moses ]X[t f ]
>             |
>          [f ]
> 
> So in the last [f ] you have the max magnitude stored and you can bang it to
> the [vu ] inlet say at a fix rate (which is the simplest way, it just
> requires a [metro ] banging [f ] and resetting [moses ])
> 
> I don't understand how using an array to store samples and then analyse it
> is more efficient than that. It seems to me you have to read 2 times: one to
> write the array in the fist place and one more to analyse it.

Yes, but I assume that banging vsnapshot~ every sample is more expensive than
just banging [tabwrite~] every 64 samples or less often. And table-access is
cheap. However I did some tests now and it seems that the difference is not
that big. I couldn't find a clear winner, so probably either solution can work
for you. I didn't test the table-analysing externals from iem_tab, though, but did 
it "manually" using a counter and [max]x[f]

Ciao
-- 
Frank