[PD] big soundfiles

[Derek Holzer]

That's a nice theoretical explanation Mathieu (no sarcasm intended), but 
let's think practical for a second. If you were going to give some 
simple advice to Pd newcomers about the length of a soundfile they 
should load to be read by [tabread4~] without noticeable distortions, 
what would it be? Please no "what do you consider noticeable" 
discussions, let's just think friendly suggestion ;-)

D.

On 11/27/10 7:40 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Derek Holzer wrote:
>
>> So what could the max size of a file be without losing any detail with
>> [tabread4~]?
>
> There is no such thing... It's completely relative to the amount of
> detail you want to have. If you want a million points between sample 1
> and sample 2 you can have them, but if you go between 100 and 101 you
> already can't have that anymore. If you want to be able to use
> sixteenths of samples, you can up to sample 1048576, but after that it's
> only eights, until the double of that size, etc.
>
> [tabread4~] is made to read between the samples, but there's no standard
> on how many points between the samples one might want... it depends on
> what you decide to do with the data, and the maximum error you can
> tolerate in that situation.
>
>> Is that the hardcoded 4000000 elements limitation?
>
> I think that it's just so that you don't load something too big, for the
> typical amounts of RAM that people had back when [soundfiler] was written.
>
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